When Conscience Calls: Moral Courage in Times of Confusion and Despair

Contents\nPreface: One Very Small Candle\nIntroduction: What Is Moral Courage?\nPart I Moral Courage as a Concept\nIntroduction\n1 Moral Courage: What We Know and What We Need to Know\n2 Stories of Moral Courage: Data and Research Methodology\nPart II Understanding Moral Courage\nIntroduction\n3 “We’re Going to Do What’s Right. We May Pay a Price for It, but That’s Fine”: Steve Zimmer on Protecting Undocumented Students\n4 “No One, Not Even the President, Is Above the Law”: Erwin Chemerinsky on Suing President Trump\n5 “If We Organize, We Can Change the World”: Heather Booth on Social Activism\n6 “I Am Going to Do This. I Am Going to Do This to the End!”: Kay Monroe on Caring for the Elderly\n7 “The Courage You Have . . . It’s Not Something You Consciously Think About”: Amal on Anti-Muslim Bullying\n8 “It Would Be a Violation of the Public Trust to Not Do All I Could to Stop the Wrongdoing”: Loretta Lynch on Speaking Truth to Power during the Enron Crisis\n9 “Nothing Else . . . Would Enable Me to Look in the Mirror the Next Day”: Vikram Tej on Fighting Caste in India\nPart III A Richly Faceted Moral Courage\nIntroduction\n10 When Nobody’s Watching\nConclusion: Learning from the Lives of Others\nAcknowledgments\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex