Moral Courage Award
In 1994, HMH introduced the Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award in memory of the 36th president of the United States. Recipients of this award are individuals who, like Johnson, exhibit moral courage, individual responsibility and the willingness to take action against injustice. The 2009 award honored U.S. Sen. John McCain for his heroism in the face of extreme adversity during the Vietnam War.
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Famous quotes containing the words moral, courage and/or award:
“When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1934)
“My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.”
—John Bunyan (1628–1688)
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
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