X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TrueHeroes;h=0250c597bf9e116bbbff9eed3e47bea78cb04216;hp=9afbadbb944955f7b4e4468934969d3e8c92b58c;hb=dae81aa2a9c85c55e2d9585b671f1dfc96468152;hpb=9f21db15b9585c6f4901e75fb7473906ec64a7f0 diff --git a/TrueHeroes b/TrueHeroes index 9afbadb..0250c59 100644 --- a/TrueHeroes +++ b/TrueHeroes @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ == True Heroes == - * Gandhi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi + * General Executive Board Report and Proceedings [of The] Biennial Convention, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1914 + + "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." + * Gandhi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi "There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for." @@ -50,13 +52,10 @@ "Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time." - -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." + (pretty modern mindset, eh?) "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."