CHAPTER 3
Courage
Choose the hard right over the easy wrong.
Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
—WINSTON CHURCHILL1
Courage has many faces and is recognized by its presence and also by its absence. In 2014, a Pakistani woman named Malala Yousafzai was selected as the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She had survived a shot in the head by terrorists who kill young women seeking an education. Miraculously, after she recovered, Malala said, “The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions; but nothing changed in my life but this: weaknesses, hopelessness, and fear died. Strength, power, and courage were born.”2
From Pakistan to the United States, all cultures celebrate ...
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