X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TrueHeroes;h=05cbc6918889d84235b66980ac205352396ec209;hp=d0814d75f8b14afc74d2064230f96d67082e8c37;hb=6b2750ab187506e3de12058a73a5a631c65699b1;hpb=cafce69cc384a65a852b07bc10b083daa0ba0f73 diff --git a/TrueHeroes b/TrueHeroes index d0814d7..05cbc69 100644 --- a/TrueHeroes +++ b/TrueHeroes @@ -1,10 +1,6 @@ == True Heroes == - * 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" - - * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi|Gandhi]] + * 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." @@ -22,23 +18,25 @@ * 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." - "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 - Ubuntu has various aspects. + Ubuntu has various aspects." - * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa|Mother Teresa of Calcutta]] + * 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." - * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.|Martin Luther King, Jr.]] + * 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." @@ -52,7 +50,7 @@ "Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time." - * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates|Socrates]] + * 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?)