"**Once you dine on courage—and freedom—and have stood up for yourself, the taste of fear is much harder to tolerate**. This is as true for the young couple integrating a lunch counter in 1956 as it is for the meek boy who stands up to the class bully. “**The old doctrine that submission is the best cure for outrage and wrong does not hold good on the slave plantation**,” [[Frederick Douglass|Douglass]] wrote. “**He is whipped oftenest who is whipped easiest, and that slave who has the courage to stand up for himself against the overseer, although he may have many hard stripes at the first, becomes in the end a freeman, even though he sustain the formal relation of a slave**.”" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[courage]], [[character]], [[personal-values]], [[resilience]], [[conflict]], **Source** -- [[202409180128 - B - Courage is Calling]]