X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TrueHeroes;h=d0814d75f8b14afc74d2064230f96d67082e8c37;hp=562c370265160048ac064dcf329fff3ffc82a5a2;hb=cafce69cc384a65a852b07bc10b083daa0ba0f73;hpb=3da9951ca7d18592fa26170a33f4a6bc6bd7510c diff --git a/TrueHeroes b/TrueHeroes index 562c370..d0814d7 100644 --- a/TrueHeroes +++ b/TrueHeroes @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ == 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." @@ -31,26 +31,31 @@ I especially admire these people of our times for how they inspired us to make t 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." The "I have a dream..." speech: http://youtube.com/watch?v=PAKnMLPus1M + * Albert Einstein -And this guy lived in the distant past, but his thought strikes me as -more modern than most of us: + "I only know one race: the human one." - * Socrates - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates + "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." + + * [[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."