Clarence Thomas on Courage|5-Minute Videos
In your life, you will face tough difficulties: individual, professional, even spiritual. How will you handle them? Partner Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Clarence Thomas uses some pertinent guidance to the next generation in PragerU’s 2024 beginning address.
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Justice Clarence Thomas:
Class of 2024, it is an honor to resolve you. I completed my official education many years ago, I believe there are some things that withstand despite the passage of time. Courage is among those things.
As Winston Churchill composed almost a century earlier, “Courage is rightly respected the very first of human qualities since … it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
In your young lives, you will deal with challenges: personal, expert, even spiritual. How will you deal with them?
I motivate you to think about the people in your lives who have actually shown courage in the face of hardship and difficulties.
When I think of the people in my own life who showed guts, I believe primarily of my grandpa, the greatest male I have ever understood. At the beginning of my career here in Washington, D.C., I sought his advice and counsel.
It was throughout my first encounters with the attack of criticism and public attacks. I asked my grandpa how I should handle it. His words were as smart as they were pithy: “Son, you have to stand up for what you think in.”
Over the years, I have actually seen those who know what is right, however who are afraid to stand up when it would cost them. It takes nerve to do something regardless of the threats.
No surprise my buddy Dennis Prager likes to state, “Courage is the rarest of … human characteristics.”
Nerve also enters play as we handle ourselves, with our problems or faults. It takes guts to be sincere with ourselves. It is a lot easier and practical to blame our drawbacks or issues on somebody (or something) else. It takes courage to be truthful and to do as Alexander Solzhenitsyn said: “Live not by lies.” Or put more favorably: “Live a life of truth and sincerity.”
From time to time, I have assessed individuals who were the most crucial in my own life and taught me much about guts. My grandparents are the very first in my thoughts. There were others.
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Courage is one of those things.
It takes courage to do something in spite of the threats.
Guts likewise comes into play as we deal with ourselves, with our problems or faults. It takes guts to be sincere with ourselves. From time to time, I have actually reflected on the individuals who were the most essential in my own life and taught me much about nerve.
