“The word courage – God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.”– Peter Fonda Related Quotes “Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.”– Sydney Smith “Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation – through compassion and courage – about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.”– Mark Pryor “So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.”– Zora Neale Hurston