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.…