Courage isn't always some death defying act. Courage can be a defying "public opinion" act. I have always believed that our greatest enemy is public opinion. More people have gotten on the wrong side of a thing for fear of public opinion than this world could possibly imagine.
When people cower to public opinion for fear of standing out, up, whatever you wish to call it, they lose part of themselves. They will never know how far, how high, how vast their accomplishments could have been because they backed out ----> due to their fear of man.
Fear of man is a snare of the devil, King Solomon said and my! my! my! Was he right about that! You simply cannot reach your destiny while hanging onto your own self preservation. It may be a greater act of courage to stand up against a liberal marxist professor in front of the entire class and speak the truth ( example: be an advocate for Israel) boldly knowing you have to walk back into that classroom tomorrow. Courage is not the absence of fear as someone here stated. It is doing what is right in spite of that fear. It is knowing that if the entire world bows down to some false system, you never will. Courage is acquired through firmly rejecting any compromise with truth, intimidation, flattery, bribery, or accolades this world offers you. It is a daily walk and when the big test comes? You'll find yourself ready for it.
