Who are your heroes?

[nytemare]

Mine are Anne Frank, Klaus VonStauffenburg (a German Colonel in WW2 who attempted to assassinate Hitler, but was hung by piano wire), and Viktor Frankl, a holocaust victim who survived to invent a new form of psychotherapy.

For some reason, I have this theme with my heroes of overcoming extreme adversity, or trying to do the right thing when there is great danger.

How about you folks?

[CanuckAmok]

1. Emma Goldman, Kurt Vonnegut, FDR.

That's it.

[nytemare]

6. A good list!

:)

[Magrittes Pipe]

2. Kill yr idols.

Sonic death.
It's the end of the world.
Confusion is sex.


edit: No, Sonic Youth are not my heroes. Heroes are dumb.

[nytemare]

3. ??????

[Magrittes Pipe]

5. !!!!!!

Eh. ;)

[CanuckAmok]

7. Society is a hole...

Expressway to yer skull...

[Ladyhawk]

4. I've decided not to have any heroes.

If you put people on pedestals, they'll come a'tumblin' down, almost without fail.

The only heroes I can have are all of the fictional variety. And even then people rag on them.

[nytemare]

8. I don't look at them as God's, just humans who did the unexpected

in very trying times. Good examples, but still human, and fallible.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

9. Barbara Boxer for her courage and guts against the Big Guns

Harry Chapin for starting World Hunger Year and and giving up great fame and fortune to feed the hungry and the homeless

Mother Theresa for sacrificing her life for those less fortunate

My husband for jumping in the ocean and saving a drowning old drunken woman and being scratched and bitten for his efforts but never complaining about it

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes.

[nytemare]

12. Good picks!

:toast:

[VOX]

10. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

They both went out on the front lines for their beliefs, and were subjected to physical injuries and did jail time. They eventually paid the ultimate price for trying to better the lot of all people, especially the less fortunate.

Where on earth (literally) does one find this profound level of selfless commitment today?

[nytemare]

11. I think maybe sometime in the future we will look on the present

circumstances, and see some examples. If that makes any sense.

[donheld]

13. Helen Caldicott, Arundhati Roy, Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk

Amy Goodman, Will Pitt, Vandana Shiva, Howard Zinn etc.