Your Heroes & Role Models?

[Eric]

Who are your heroes and role models?

Here are some of mine:

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Clarence Darrow
Cesar Chavez
John Brown
Thomas Paine
Emma Goldman
Malcolm X
Arundhati Roy
The Warsaw Ghetto Fighters

[sleepydumpling]

Ooh, how could I choose...

My friend Ian, whom I've known since I was 17.

Billy Connolly, who speaks the truth, while making me laugh.

Oprah Winfrey, for being a black woman who makes a difference to the world, regardless of what people say.

Queen Latifah, for rocking what she's got.

My friend KJ for her strength and grace.

I am sure there are others.

[Scott]

Eric, I am also fond of Malcolm X, Emma Goldman, Thomas Paine, John Brown, and Martin Luther King. If you like Emma Goldman, I highly recommend you check out Voltairine de Cleyre, who I admire even more.

I also admire Gandhi, Jesus, and Henry David Thoreau. I also have to mention Thomas Jefferson even if just for his massive impact on American political thought throughout its history and still today.

[Eric]

Eric, I am also fond of Malcolm X, Emma Goldman, Thomas Paine, John Brown, and Martin Luther King. If you like Emma Goldman, I highly recommend you check out Voltairine de Cleyre, who I admire even more.

I also admire Gandhi, Jesus, and Henry David Thoreau. I also have to mention Thomas Jefferson even if just for his massive impact on American political thought throughout its history and still today.

I have come across Voltairine de Cleyre's name through my reading but haven't read any of her works. I'll definitely put her on my reading list. I actually just finished watching Ken Burns' "Thomas Jefferson", which I thought was really well done. I hear that Joseph Ellis' "The American Sphinx" is excellent, so one of these days I'm going to check it out.

[Tracey Neal]

I have quite a few! lol

Jesus,
My Dad and Mom,
Peanut and Bones,
Foster parents,
Volunteers to those in need.
Humanitarians,
Moses,
Voltairine de Cleyre,
Henry David Thoreau,
Martin Luther King,
Mother Teresa,
Oprah,
Gandhi,
John F. Kennedy,
Jane Austen,
Robert Frost,
Thomas Jefferson...I could keep adding here.

These are just some of the people I consider my hero's, others I greatly admire and have much respect for.

[SeoulChild]

Walt Disney...not so much for a role model, but I mean to really comprehend the impact that his name has had on an entire generations of americans...on the whole is noteworthy, and kind of scary.

[clarebear]

Morrissey
Shakespeare
Karl Marx
George Orwell
Sophia Coppolla
Vivienne Leigh
Elizabeth Taylor
Jean Harlow
Sylvia Plath
Beth Ditto
Elizabeth Wurzel
Stephen Fry

And more, I could make this list very long!!

[Tracey Neal]

Morrissey
Shakespeare
Karl Marx
George Orwell
Sophia Coppolla
Vivienne Leigh
Elizabeth Taylor
Jean Harlow
Sylvia Plath
Beth Ditto
Elizabeth Wurzel
Stephen Fry

And more, I could make this list very long!!

Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor...boovenchuffy!! Classic Beauties..solid choice

[Bighuey]

Chuck Yeager
Alexander The Great
Steven Hawking
Ulysses S. Grant
Lewis and Clark

I admire these people because they overcame great odds to become what they are.

[Moore]

In fact it is even said in the Bible not to have any idols or icons. I can only name the people I admire like Jesus, John Paul II.

[Melaniep]

My uncle Eddie. He was born with hydrocephalus back in the days when doctors treated it like a death sentence. They said he wouldn't live past 2mos old. When he did, they said he would never walk, never talk, never do this, never do that. My grandparents listened to none of it. My uncle grew up to do all of the things he "couldn't" do. He had a job, a girlfriend, made his own meals. He would have been completely independent, but he had to always live with a family member who could keep an eye out for seizures. This person who wasn't supposed to live past infancy lived to be a man of 43.

He overcame every obstacle (and there were many) he ever came across and for that he is my hero.

[Bob_robinson]

Eugene Debs
Norman Finkelstein

others too but they have been mentioned already =\

[Sophius]

Stephen King
Frank Zappa
Salvador Dali
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Leonardo Da Vinci

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[AuthorLisaTortorello]

I admire lots of people and one of my biggest heroes is my grandfather whom I lovingly called Ding. He was a wonderful person who had lots to offer. He was in WWII when he was just 18, shortly after he got married. He made it home and had a family and worked hard to start his own business. I had the pleasure of working in his store for about 10 years, and he taught me many valuable lessons.
He died suddenly in the summer of 1991 and believe it or not I dreamt about it the night before he had his stroke. I was in such awe over my dream and in such grief over his death, I wrote a memoir about my grandfather and I.
If every young person today had at least one positive role model, this world would be in much better shape.