Courage

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'"

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Today's Question

When you hesitate before a choice, what question fills your head the most? Is it the 'shame' of failure, or the 'profit' of success?

The minister who walked into prison to follow his conscience

Martin Luther King Jr. led the non-violent civil rights movement in the 1950s and 60s. He believed that when laws violate justice, disobeying them is a duty of conscience.

He was arrested and jailed 29 times during his protests. Even while locked in a Birmingham cell, he wrote his famous 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' on scraps of paper and newspaper margins, keeping his voice active.

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