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What the "typical German" is often thought to lack are the individualist virtues of tolerance and respect for other individuals and their opinions, of independence of mind and that uprightness of character and readiness to defend one's own convictions against a superior which the Germans themselves, usually conscious that they lack it, call Zivilcourage, of consideration for the weak and infirm, and of that healthy contempt and dislike of power which only an old tradition of personal liberty creates.
Canada Free Press 2010
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chelster commented on the word Zivilcourage
Discussed in Howard Rheingold's They Have a Word for It, where it is defined as "courage to express unpopular opinions."
October 11, 2011