Elizabeth May Quotes

The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.

For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.

Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more.

There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.

Muhammad Ali is a true hero, and the fact there's something wrong with him is his badge of valour. He's a great man.

I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was just in awe of this man because of what he'd done.

Our nation cannot call for respect for human rights when it lacks the moral courage to save its own cities, its own poor, its own minorities whose rights are trampled upon.

I cannot imagine my life without the example that Nelson Mandela set.

I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

Lead by example but never from fear.

I like to make films about people who changed the lives of others and asserted human dignity.

Corky is an ordinary person who does extraordinary things. He is a true inspiration, but he doesn't know that he's an inspiration.

I'm simply saying that heroes are people whose activities, whose attitudes, and whose judgment you just think, 'Wow. That's good. That's right. That's real.'

'Glory' pays tribute to honorable men who faced unimaginable discrimination even as they fought to preserve basic human rights.

Martin Luther King didn't know he was going to have a day named after him; Muhammad Ali didn't know he was going to be the people's champion. He was doing what he was doing because it was right.

Kunta Kinte is the closest thing I've ever seen... to a superhero. He's amazing. He's inspirational.

Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What should be the minimum becomes the maximum - all we are supposed to expect - but human rights aren't enough. The goal is, and must always be, justice.

The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.

Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.

We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.

No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.

The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.