The answer of an historian, a European, and a man of moral courage.
It takes a great deal of moral courage to walk through the doors of an armed forces recruitment centre, he said.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
Orwell praised Waugh publicly for his moral courage.
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His biographer, an historian at the University of Illinois, has done a wonderful job in sifting out the truth of Rustin's life from the fiction, and in celebrating the man's extraordinary physical and moral courage.
In his "Divine Comedy" of the 14th century, the sin he condemned most vigorously was "ignavia, " by which he meant sloth -- the failure to take responsibility, the failure to show moral courage and to change things.
"As the last witnesses to the horrors of World War II leave us, it is vital, it is imperative, to keep alive the memory and example of individuals like Raoul Wallenberg, " she said, describing Mr Wallenberg as a man of "moral courage and heroic example".
" As Eunice said at one point, Special Olympics teaches "that all human beings are created equal in the sense that each has the capacity and a hunger for moral excellence, for courage, for friendship and for love.
Thatcher's strongest characteristic was her courage, both physical and moral.
This column borrows from ideas developed more fully in The Courage to do Nothing: A Moral Defense of Markets and Freedom.
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