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How did the great sages and saints find the courage to fight for goodness—even when it meant sacrificing their own lives? They had divine fire in their blood. Their faith was stronger than their fear. Their love for truth was greater than their attachment to comfort, money, status, or even survival. They were willing to be rejected, ridiculed, persecuted, imprisoned, and sometimes killed because they believed the future of humanity mattered more than their personal safety. You cannot buy someone whose soul is on fire. You cannot intimidate someone who has already decided that doing the right thing matters more than avoiding pain. That is the fire humanity needs again: not hatred, destruction, or blind fanaticism, but a fire of courage, love, truth, and service. A fire so powerful that we stop asking, “What will this cost me?” And start asking, “What does goodness require of me?”