Culture

Refusing to give up her seat on December 1, 1955. Courage as one decision in one moment that changes the arc of history.

Returning to advocacy after being shot for attending school. Courage as the refusal to let violence win the argument.

Disclosing mass surveillance programs knowing the cost. Principled courage at the price of exile.

A single man standing in front of a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. The most famous act of individual courage in the late twentieth century - unnamed, unresolved, impossible to forget.