text: Courage and character is doing what's "right" because it's RIGHT, not because you're finally pressured into doing it.  Decency and character are reflected in what you do when you know that no one is looking.  Leadership is stepping forward FIRST and taking a public stand....even one which might be unpopular.  Trump tried to "have it both ways"......to mouth opposition to violence without condemning the purveyers of that racist hate and violence by name and, thereby, possibly alienating part of his base.  It didn't work real well as he was forced by a crescendo of public ourcry to do what he should have done "on his own".  Actions of character, dignity and courage come from within...Trump's belated acknowledgement of the hate purveyed by the ault-right, the white supremacists and the white nationalists came from pressure from the OUTSIDE. That's a huge and important difference.  Gary Crum