Famous Figures

Her thirteen missions into slave-holding states to free others, undertaken at extreme personal risk and without institutional support, reflect a Courage orientation in which principled action for others takes clear precedence over personal safety.

Her continuation of public advocacy for girls' education after surviving an assassination attempt reflects a Courage orientation in which the cause is judged more important than the safety it would cost to abandon.

Her refusal to give up her seat, prepared for through years of civil rights training rather than spontaneous impulse, reflects a Courage orientation in which principled action is taken with full awareness of its cost.

His escape from slavery, his public identification of his enslaver in his autobiography, and his decades of principled political advocacy despite persistent threats reflect a Courage orientation applied systematically to the pursuit of justice.

Her pursuit of the Pacific Gas and Electric case against professional advice and institutional resistance, sustained through personal risk and social dismissal, reflects a Courage orientation applied to legal and environmental justice.

Her distribution of anti-Nazi pamphlets at the University of Munich, undertaken with knowledge of the likely consequences, reflects a Courage orientation in which moral obligation overrides institutional self-preservation.