Who are peoples heroes form history? I guess i'd say mine was probably che guevara all though i admire a lot of reolvutionaries and various hisrotical figures.
People's heros? Well, Solon "started" Athenian democracy. Or you might consider the Black Death which left the (European) population low enough that the common worker was hard to replace and therefore more valuable. And of course there is/was Joe Hill.
Louis Riel. He was an amazing man who was hung for commiting treason against the Canadian government, all the professing not to be a Canadian citizen.
Ceasar Chavez. no one ever knows who he is and he never gets any credit. he helped to give farm workers rights in the 50's and 60's though non-violence.
Here in California, there is a state holiday for him. Ceasar Chavez Elementry School is 1/2 mile from where I am now. Did Chavez have much impact on farm labour outside of California?
does anyone make a big deal about the holiday? i heard about it but i figured it was just kinda ignored like secretarys day or somthing. i not sure about his impact though out the united states. i know the boycotts reached outside CA, i think the laws and all that did too.
my hero is Mr. Václav Havel, the man, who was a leader of people who broke a communist régime in our country in 1989.. then he became a president..
Well, its a paid holiday for state workers. People regard it about as important as MLK day, people get the day off, but stores don't have special sales.
Bob Marley, directly using your music to influence politics to benefit the common man, what better plan could there be? Hatshepsut, my fave female pharoh, and one of the first female world leaders Bennet Cerf, one of the 1950-60s coolest world-wise men Fleet Walker, the first african american in the major leagues
yeh, he is a hero. I wouldn't reguard the soviet reigieme as communist, but that man did liberate your country, and bloodlessly as well.
um, martin luther king, jfk, abraham lincoln, washington, alexander the great, julius caesar, augustus, neil armstrong...the wright brothers...i could go on forever i think
he was brilliant. Was he a murderer? yep, probably a racist, misogynist, and every other nasty ist too. That doesn't mean he is without admirable traits though. we can knock down every hero if we want to. I dont see the point in it.
My main hero is the dude that invented the "honey bear" honey container. Thank you sir for helping us poor smokers.
The 300 Spartan's who held a Persian army of 100,000 for 3 day's ,Long enough for the Greek's to mobilise an army , defeat the Persian's ,and save Western Civilisation in it's infancy...Gotta love the greeks!
you'd have to include the athenians who fought at marathon then too.. but yeah...leonidas rocks. "stranger, go tell the spartans that we lie here obedient to their laws."
-Leonidas the spartan, mentioned above -Ivan the Boneless and Halfdan Ubba, who avenged the death of their father at the hands of the English, by conquering East Anglia in 865 C.E. and sacrificing the English king to Wotan. -The Founding Fathers of the U.S.A. -John Moses Browning -Jelly Bryce -Bill Tilghman, last of the great frontier marshalls. If only more cops were like him..... -Congressman Ron Paul, perhaps the only honest man in Congress.
Sara Teasdale, Lenin, Tori Amos, Marc Wilmots, The Libertines (though I'm not so naieve that I would deny Pete Doherty has become a total waster now), and I probably forget some.
