In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion misery and death.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice and with patience courage fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan Truman and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.

History despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived but if faced with courage need not be lived again.

Courage is not the absence of despair it is rather the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself in spite of being unacceptable.

But despite the universality of URLs we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.

Yet in spite of this world-wide system of linkages there is at this very moment a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere on an unparalleled scale.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so there can be no human society as we know it.

Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?