More From Dan Rather
- "This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It’s, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television."
- "But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won’t. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place."
- "A free and truly independent press – fiercely independent when necessary – is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy."
More In Courage
- "The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."― John F. Kennedy
- "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."― Mark Twain
- "So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter."― Zora Neale Hurston