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Autism is not a disease and these kids are not damaged, despite what HHS Secretary Kennedy says.

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” — Soren Kierkegaard

“Courage is not limited to the battlefield ... The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody’s looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you’re misunderstood.” — Charles Swindoll

“Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.” — C. JoyBell C.

“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” — General George S. Patton

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“Only be you strong, and very courageous, then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” — Joshua 1:7-8

“Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.” — Plautus

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ― Lao Tzu

I know all the folks in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something. That there's some good in the world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for. - Samwise Gamgee

“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” — R. G. Ingersoll

“Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.” ― Shannon L. Alder

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. - Martin Luther King

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” — Marie Curie

"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right." -- Nelson Mandela

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Courage originally meant “To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.” ― Brené Brown

“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.” ― Abraham Lincoln

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“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on — it is going on when you don’t have strength.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T. S. Eliot

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I’m afraid of it, then I must do it. Erica Jong