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+== True Heroes ==
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+I especially admire these people of our times for how they inspired us to make the world a better place:
+
+ * Gandhi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi
+
+  "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
+
+  "There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for."
+
+  "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
+
+  "God has no religion"
+
+  "We must respect other religions, even as we respect our own. Mere tolerance thereof is not enough."
+
+  (When asked if he was a Hindu) "Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew."
+
+  On Showing up to meet His Majesty King Edward VII of England in just a loincloth, a reporter
+  wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king.  Gandhi replied simply, "The King was
+  wearing enough for the both of us."
+
+ * Nelson Mandela
+
+  "I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless
+  and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining
+  years of my life in your hands."
+
+  "A traveller through our country would stop at a village, and he didn't have to ask for food or for
+  water. Once he stops, the people give him food, entertain him. That is one aspect of Ubuntu but
+  Ubuntu has various aspects.
+
+
+ * Mother Teresa of Calcutta - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa
+
+  "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."
+
+  "When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books."
+
+
+ * Martin Luther King, Jr. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
+
+  "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."
+
+  The "I have a dream..." speech: http://youtube.com/watch?v=PAKnMLPus1M
+
+
+And this guy lived in the distant past, but his thought strikes me as
+more modern than most of us:
+
+ * Socrates - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates
+
+  "I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
+
+  "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
+
+  "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live."
+
+  Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, "How many things I have no need of!"