Hero? Yes!

[madamesilverspurs]

[Buzz Clik]

1. Damned straight! He is a hero.

He stood up for what he believed in and paid a severe price.

That is the face of a hero.

[quinnox]

2. yep, commiting civil disobediance is often the sign of a true hero

Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. They both committed what were considered crimes, to draw attention to their cause. Civil disobedience has a distinguished history.

[HappyMe]

3. Now this man, is TRULY a hero.

The world will be a much poorer, emptier place without him.

[Rebellious Republican]

14. This world will be much richer and fuller because of him!

Like MLK, Rosa Parks, RFK and many others his legacy will endure!

[treestar]

4. Thank you

For that beautiful thought.

A real hero, indeed.

[In_The_Wind]

5. Yes!

[one_voice]

6. Yes, THIS man is a hero!

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Now THAT is a true hero

yup yup

K&R

[sheshe2]

8. Thank you MSS

His story is one of courage~

Simply said, beautiful

[SCVDem]

9. Allow him to pass with his well earned dignity!

I don't understand the cruel wishes that everything be done to prolong a life which is at an end.

Go in peace with the gratitude of the world Mr. Mandela.

[Uncle Joe]

10. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, madamesilverspurs.

[MjolnirTime]

11. He most definitely did not aid the enemies of his Nation. Unlike others...

[fasttense]

13. Well... actually he was accused of

being a traitor to his country for exposing the horrors and cruelties in his country. They claimed he was a terrorist and exposed his country's shameful secrets to others. Eventually they came around but only after locking him up for years and years. Not everyone needs to go to jail to prove they are a hero.

[Coccydynia]

15. He also exposed what was old news in his county.

He is truly a hero. But you don't have to suffer injustices to be a hero.

[titanicdave]

12. Nelson Mandela

is truly one of the great human beings of our time......how fortunate we all are to live at the same time as this truly fine gentleman....

[SunSeeker]

16. Yes. He could have taken the easy road and run away...

He was well educated, with a law degree. He could have left South Africa and had a comfortable life. Instead, he stayed, protested and was imprisoned. He fought for his country, not against it. In so doing, he set a moral example and inspired a generation. I will always be in awe of his strength and courage.

[Initech]

17. He's the hero the world needs now but not the one it deserves.

A silent guardian. A watchful protector. A dark knight.

[Rebellious Republican]

18. Invictus and Apartheid

Great movie, everyone should rent it and enjoy this very moving film.

http://suite101.com/article/clint-eastwoods-invictus-and-apartheid-a210622

[bigwillq]

19. K and R

[freshwest]

21. His mission was the oppressed, not himself, power of fame. He will live in the hearts of millions.

[Egnever]

22. Absolutely!

[arely staircase]

23. hell yeah

one of the greatest men in history.

[Whisp]

24. Yes. This is the proper definition of a hero.

To besmirch that word is cruel and ignorant.

[Whisp]

25. Myths to Live By - Joseph Campbell

“The great German philosopher Schopenhauer, in a magnificent essay on 'The Foundation of Morality,' treats of this transcendental spiritual experience. How is it, he asks, that an individual can so forget himself and his own safety that he will put himself and his life in jeopardy to save another from death or pain—as though that other’s life were his own, that other’s danger his own? Such a one is then acting, Schopenhauer answers, out of an instinctive recognition of the truth that he and that other in fact are one. He has been moved not from the lesser, secondary knowledge of himself as separate from others, but from an immediate experience of the greater, truer truth, that we are all one in the ground of our being. Schopenhauer’s name for this motivation is “compassion,” Mitleid, and he identifies it as the one and only inspiration of inherently moral action. It is founded, in his view, in a metaphysically valid insight. For a moment one is selfless, boundless, without ego."

Excerpt From: Joseph Campbell, “Myths to Live By.” Joseph Campbell Foundation, 2011-03-11. iBooks.

[Tarheel_Dem]

26. K&R

[last1standing]

27. Mandela is a hero.

However, I hope we don't expect everyone who would stand up against their government's wrongs to match his fortitude. If so, we will quickly run out of heroes or even whistleblowers.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

28. K & R!

THIS IS A HERO!

[Liberal_in_LA]

29. kick

[Luminous Animal]

30. Mandela was removed from the U.S. terrorist watch list in 2008

That is right. Mandela was officially recognized as a terrorist by the U.S. government until 2008.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-04-30-watchlist_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip