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 == True Heroes ==
 
 == True Heroes ==
 

-I especially admire these people of our times for how they inspired us to make the world a better place:
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  * Gandhi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi
 
  * 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."
   "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."


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  * Nelson Mandela
 
 
  * Nelson Mandela
 

+  "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
+

   "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."
 
   "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
+  "A traveler 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
   water. Once he stops, the people give him food, entertain him. That is one aspect of Ubuntu but

-  Ubuntu has various aspects.
+  Ubuntu has various aspects."

 
 
  * Mother Teresa of Calcutta - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa
 
 
  * Mother Teresa of Calcutta - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa


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   The "I have a dream..." speech: http://youtube.com/watch?v=PAKnMLPus1M
 
 
   The "I have a dream..." speech: http://youtube.com/watch?v=PAKnMLPus1M
 

+ * Albert Einstein
+
+   "I only know one race: the human one."
+
+   "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."

 
 

-And this guy lived in the distant past, but his thought strikes me as
-more modern than most of us:
+   "Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time."

 
  * Socrates - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates
 
   "I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
 
  * Socrates - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates
 
   "I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

+  (pretty modern mindset, eh?)

 
   "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
 
 
   "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."