Without the ability to face fears or trials or to understand the suffering of others, any man or woman would be fragmented at best. Every human being, every warrior and every humanitarian is built to live with great courage and compassion. These unique traits are two sides of the same coin that cannot be overlooked or underestimated. The ability to embrace whole people of all kinds of strengths, weaknesses, failures, faiths and difficulties wholeheartedly is essential to establishing a high quality of life in any society. . This ability is more commonly known as compassion. In an environment where people are able to accept themselves and others there is no need to convince or criticize each other. Without compassion, courage has no direction. Without direction, human beings are exposed to the trap of their own natural tendencies. Intermittent violence between Hutu and Tutsi – two tribes from the same state of Rwanda – in the early 1990s came to a head with the more than 100-day genocide of the same Rwandan population in 1994. Rarely told stories from the time of the genocide tell of shelters offered to neighbors of various tribes in danger and the stubborn will to endure of families who have lost everything they had (pbs.org). Without the ability to put yourself in the other person's shoes, the effectiveness of one's ability to lead would be a mockery of management. Compassion may not be an innate characteristic necessary for the survival of the human species, but it is one of those things necessary to bring quality and purpose to an individual's survival. “The value of compassion cannot be emphasized enough. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by a... means of paper... of the importance of both compassion and courage as equal parts of the same solution can be quantified by the number of bodies piled up on the sides of roads across Rwanda and all over the world. However, when you notice the resilience of those who suffer, it cannot go unnoticed that you must be strong and good to protect and love others. These two abilities work in unison to create the mightiest of warriors, the greatest humanitarians, and the most grounded human beings of all. Despite all the skepticism, something that will always ring true over time is that humans, left to their own devices, will always degenerate into the same macabre hashing that has always plagued the mortal realm without. That is, unless each individual makes a conscious decision to live a life supported by the defining character traits of courage and compassion.