The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.

Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.