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'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.

I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

I'm not against speaking publicly and having passion for something. One of the cardinal beauties of America is that we have the freedom to do so.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.