== True Heroes ==
-I especially admire these people of our times for how they inspired us to make the world a better place:
+ * General Executive Board Report and Proceedings [of The] Biennial Convention, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1914
- * Gandhi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi
+ "First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you"
- "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
+ * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi|Gandhi]]
"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for."
Ubuntu has various aspects.
- * Mother Teresa of Calcutta - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa
+ * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa|Mother Teresa of Calcutta]]
"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.
+ * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.|Martin Luther King, Jr.]]
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."
"Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time."
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-And this guy lived in the distant past, but his thought strikes me as
-more modern than most of us:
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- * Socrates - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates
+ * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates|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."