Courage can define someone. Atticus Finch, from Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, explains courage as this: “... 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.” Atticus wanted his children to understand that courage is standing up for what they believe and still doing things even if there is little possibility of success. Civil rights leader, John Lewis, fought hard for segregated people’s rights throughout the U.S. John Lewis matches Atticus’s definition of courage because despite injury and criticism, Lewis stood courageous for what he believed and spoke out for his people, knowing it could possibly lead to imprisonment or death, discerning he was “licked before he began.”
John Lewis fought courageously for human rights in the USA for the black culture, who were strongly discriminated. Working hard on sharecropping land, he was against the unfairness of segregation shown to his people. Arrested many times for speaking out, Lewis stayed committed to his fight for the Civil Rights Movement. Due to his stand for what …show more content…
Many people were injured and imprisoned, but John Lewis stood courageous and didn’t give up, seeing the Movement through to the end. His definition of courage states that “courage is a reflection of the heart – It is a reflection of something deep within the man or woman or even a child who must resist and must defy an authority that is morally wrong.” (Shawn J. Parry Giles) He wanted to “move our feet, our hands, our hearts, our resources to build and not to tear down, to reconcile and not to divide, to love and not to hate, to heal and not to kill.” Lewis was hurt and imprisoned more than forty times, yet he kept to his definition of courage and stood tall, despite criticism and
John Lewis fought courageously for human rights in the USA for the black culture, who were strongly discriminated. Working hard on sharecropping land, he was against the unfairness of segregation shown to his people. Arrested many times for speaking out, Lewis stayed committed to his fight for the Civil Rights Movement. Due to his stand for what …show more content…
Many people were injured and imprisoned, but John Lewis stood courageous and didn’t give up, seeing the Movement through to the end. His definition of courage states that “courage is a reflection of the heart – It is a reflection of something deep within the man or woman or even a child who must resist and must defy an authority that is morally wrong.” (Shawn J. Parry Giles) He wanted to “move our feet, our hands, our hearts, our resources to build and not to tear down, to reconcile and not to divide, to love and not to hate, to heal and not to kill.” Lewis was hurt and imprisoned more than forty times, yet he kept to his definition of courage and stood tall, despite criticism and