X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TrueHeroes;h=63b3643caa88927abb848912b9bed9b598ae597c;hp=0250c597bf9e116bbbff9eed3e47bea78cb04216;hb=HEAD;hpb=89feb996fb50344f10c929ffe0295b60eb614acb diff --git a/TrueHeroes b/TrueHeroes index 0250c59..63b3643 100644 --- a/TrueHeroes +++ b/TrueHeroes @@ -1,64 +1 @@ -== 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" - - * 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." - - "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 - - * Albert Einstein - - "I only know one race: the human one." - - "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." - - "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." - (pretty modern mindset, eh?) - - "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!" +See [[GreatQuotes]] \ No newline at end of file