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Courage

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Dignity, a better life, or justice and rule of law, are things worth fighting for. Not to step back – in spite of confronting the mighty and powerful – creates courageous acts that stay in our memories and means something – as when Rosa Parks sixty years ago, on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger.

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Courage

Dignity, a better life, or justice and rule of law, are things worth fighting for. Not to step back – in spite of confronting the mighty and powerful – creates courageous acts that stay in our memories and means something – as when Rosa Parks sixty years ago, on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger.

Lars Pålsson Syll
Professor at Malmö University. Primary research interest - the philosophy, history and methodology of economics.

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