Sentences with phrase «moral courage»

It's a question of moral courage to be willing to try to point out and change bad systems.

He encouraged people to look for ways to work toward positive change and to bring people together and act with moral courage.

The more we succeed in securing justice and fairness through laws and regulations, the less call there is for moral courage.

But in a decent society there is no need for the regular exercise of moral courage.

And that is demonstrate moral courage with regard to how many people in America are unfortunately being left behind and the issues that we're facing as a country.

The Los Angeles New Administrator's Program (LANALP) recruits, selects and trains new administrators to have a focus on creating equitable schools and highlights moral courage as a key attribute of an urban administrator.

and how much moral courage it requires to stand alone!

The answer is that he was one of the relatively few giants of the last hundred years, a man whose moral courage, literary genius and uncompromising devotion to his calling alerted millions to the higher possibilities in being human.

It is a moment of true moral courage, complicated though it is by troubling ingrained cultural assumptions.

The founding parents named the school to commemorate the gifts of clarity of thinking, warm - hearted humanity and moral courage which Alan Howard, a long - time Waldorf teacher from England, brought to the birth of Waldorf education in Canada.

On the other hand, the knowledge that you've demonstrated moral courage when it counted carries enormous power.

The film's belief in the power of redemption and its subtle assertion of the need for moral courage in personal (or political) conflict, is never allowed to get in the way of its boldly told, intelligent, informed and affecting story.

Blue's climate silence is understandable in that regard, although it hardly reflects moral courage or true business leadership.

«Mountain Mourning» calls upon Christians and their churches to summons moral courage and effective advocacy that will bring healing and justice to this land and its people.

However, with moral courage you can carve a new...

The voter's use of the term demonstrates the challenges women candidates and lesbians in particular face, and Weiner's failure to swiftly and firmly condemn her language demonstrates his lack of moral courage.

Sometimes the bringing to light of such history will provide precedents for moral courage («If the last generation could take such bold measures, why can't we?»).

I think that as we go forward, we will have an active voice in demonstrating what I've said before: the moral courage to address things that we think are important to the promise of America and the American dream.

«Why do we not have the moral courage to attack that?»

For back in 2007, they purchased a property worth, at the time, nearly $ 1.5 million dollars, but by mid-2008, in a display of moral courage, the same property was sold for under $ 450,000!

We're talking here genuine magnanimity, generosity, physical and moral courage, rugged integrity, and not being a sell - out (not to mention not selling out people for whom you are responsible).

Paterno's statue should be melted down, his legacy forever stained by his lack of action and moral courage.

In relation to Islam, it is where people have lost their moral courage, altogether, too often.

THEY SHOULD SHOW THE MORAL COURAGE AND LEAD THE CRUSADE AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE.

And while Christianity's highest and deepest implications may tax the brains and moral courage of the most fully developed personalities, they can also be accepted by the relatively simple and ungifted.

If we protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in the future, somebody will have to say, «There lived a race of people, of black people, of people who had the moral courage to stand up for their rights.

Sir Ted, though talented and charismatic, has exhausted his reservoir of moral courage.

Once this beauty and this moral courage have become flesh and blood in our spatiotemporal world, the whole realm of value is thereby enhanced forever, for what is particular in these individual cases represents the concretion for all time of what before was only «possibility.»

«It's past time for our political leaders to find the moral courage to act,» said the Rev. Jim Wallis, president and CEO of Sojourners.

While we applaud Germany's moral courage, they are also smart.

Kohlberg acts as though King's race, southern heritage, generational moment, Christian faith, and theological training — all the inconvenient particularities that bore on his leadership in the civil rights movement — were utterly incidental to his vision and his moral courage.

No one seriously questions the virtue of virtues or doubts that honesty is better than dishonesty, fairness is better than unfairness, kindness is better than cruelty, and moral courage is superior to cowardice and expediency.»

Pastor Craig observed that America was hungry for leadership, moral courage and faith.

Is moral courage the virtue that remains, now that physical danger and hardship have receded from our lives?

Funny how these guys are quick to comment over an interview but lack the moral courage to speak against their own molesting kids.

It is an act absent of any moral courage and the act of a neo-classic narcissist.

Before the game, we knew that United lacked: (a) an established central midfielder capable of moving the ball both intelligently and imaginatively (back in your box, Carrick fan, it's been a good long while); (b) a source of backbone, spine, gumption, heart, garra, moral courage, or whatever; (c) a functioning Patrice Evra; (d) a settled defence.

Character Education: ICLS 105/5 27 - 12 (2005) requires teachers to teach students «respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, trustworthiness, and citizenship, in order to raise pupils» honesty, kindness, justice, discipline, respect for others, and moral courage» to lessen crimes and raise the standard of good character.

Our teachers are committed to developing students» intellectual flexibility, independent judgment, and moral courage.

Intellectual flexibility, independent judgment, moral courage, and the ability to work effectively in a group environment are essential to the child's success as a creative and responsible human being.

Any politician of any political party should have the moral courage to clearly distance themselves from those who espouse and promote anti Semitism, racism or any attitude that fosters intolerance.