Just When You Thought You'd Never Quote From a Novel You're Required to Read for Literature Classes

"Who is the brave man-he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination. The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads. And yet I do not think it heroic to march into the fields of fire, whipped on one's way only by fear of being called crave. Sometimes, true courage requires inaction; that one sit at home while war rages, if by doing so one satisfies the quiet voice of honorable conscience."
-March by Geraldine Brooks

Makes you think about how it contradicts what you were taught since young, doesn't it?

Made me realise that there is a very fine line between courage and cowardice.
This particular paragraph also made me realise that we shouldn't just easily absorb what we learn from someone else, but to think it over and rationalise.
Was it the right meaning?

Courage or cowardice?
Makes you rethink whether those who you used to call brave were actually brave or not, didn't it?
Well, I did.

So are you brave or are you a coward?