Who Are Your Heroes? I'll Start:

[Dinger]

Casey Sheehan
Cindy Sheehan
Paul Wellstone
Al Gore
Wesley Clark
John Kerry
Russ Feingold
Johnny Cash
Molly Ivins
Keith Olbermann
. . .


Just a start. I have many, many more.

[VelmaD]

1. Andy Stephenson

I still miss him every day. :cry:

Barbara Jordan
Ann Richards
Molly Ivins
Ralph Yarborough
Henry B. Gonzalez

[Dinger]

2. I Never Had The Honor To Know Andy

From what I read here, he was someone very special.

[VelmaD]

3. He was wonderful

Kind and funny and absolutely nuts...in a good way. He was my best friend for the last couple of years of his life and as hard as it was to lose him...I wouldn't trade having known him for the world.

[ConsAreLiars]

29. Indeed a hero

I only met him a few times. Honest to a fault, hard-driving, passionate, committed to justice, yet very soft and vulnerable. He made a difference.

[Gregorian]

4. Jesus.

That's it.

Maybe John Coltrane could provide a backup soundtrack.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Mine are s/heroes

Cindy Sheehan
Diane Wilson
Ann Wright
Tina Richards
Midge Potts
Medea Benjamin
Dahlia Wasfi

[Redstone]

6. I generally define a "hero" strictly as someone who risks his or her own life to save the life

of another, but I'll make an exception for most of the people on your list.

Because althought they may not have RISKED their lives for the sake of others, they have DEDICATED their lives to save or improve the lives of other people.

Good list.

Redstone

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. My Mom & Dad

Everything else is sort of entertainment.

[Dinger]

9. I Agree

For me, "Mom & Dad" are #1 on the lost, goes without saying, for me.

[SPKrazy]

8. Great thread

great post!

:hi:

great list

[Dinger]

11. Awww, Thank You : )

:)

[Rex]

10. Henry Waxman.

All the ones you listed too.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

12. The only real heroes left in the world are the firemen.

I find it very hard right now to consider ANY politician a hero- Al Gore would come the closest in that category.

The only other single person that stands out for me right now is Cindy.

[VelmaD]

14. I used to feel that way about firemen...

and then I read some articles about how some of them treat the women and minorities in their departments. :(

[Swamp Rat]

13. Khephra

Andy
nostamj

I've left out a lot of other great DUers.

[Rex]

16. A lot of great posters gone

but never forgotten.

[hfojvt]

33. alarcojon

180

Perhaps not as active as the three you mentioned.

So if I honored the living, I would give a nod to
Sapphire Blue
H20 man
and
lwfern

[porphyrian]

15. Me. I love me.

And it's a good thing, too.

[rpannier]

17. My Parents

I agree with Charles Barkley when he said every kids first heroes and role models should be their parents. If they're not there's something very wrong with how they were raised.

Everyone else is sort of inspiration.

I guess if someone risked their life to save mine, I'd call them my hero.

[frogbison]

18. George McGovern

You will be hard pressed to find anyone so dedicated to peace than this man.

[cynatnite]

19. Chief Joseph, Rosa Parks, MLK....just a few off the top of my head n/t

[flvegan]

20. Easy...my heroes wear masks

The ALF.

[Gemini Cat]

21. Here are a few of mine...

Jackie Robinson
John Glenn
FDR
Eleanor Roosevelt
John Conyers
Andy Stephenson
Ann Frank
Joe Louis
Cindy Sheehan
Wes Clark
Henry Aaron
Rosa Parks
Bobby Kennedy
Henry Waxmann
Barbara Boxer
Josh Gibson
My Brother

[Hekate]

22. Margaret Sanger and Thomas Jefferson. There are others, but those two always...

...rise to the top in my mind.

Their lives make me realize the difference between saints and heroes. Saints are alleged to be flawless -- heroes are often all-too-human in their flaws, but achieve greatness in their service to humanity.

Hekate

[lpbk2713]

23. JFK, RFK, Cesar Chavez, many more.

[Az]

24. Some of mine

Carl Sagan
Mark Twain
Socrates
Voltaire
Galileo Galilei
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Al Gore
Lao Tzu
Sun Tzu
Anyone that stands up and speaks truth to power
Anyone that champions reason
Anyone that champions tolerance

[Onceuponalife]

25. some of mine...

Charles Darwin
Clarence Darrow
Che Guevara
Edward R. Murrow
Sean Penn
Martin Luther King, jr.
Kurt Vonnegut, jr.
Pete Stark
Woody Guthrie
Bruce Springsteen
Mark Twain
Lou Gehrig
Michael Moore

[revolve]

26. Really those are your heroes

Not to start a flame war but why the hell are casey and cindy Sheehan at the top of your "Heroes" list?


As for myself, I guess Im to disillusioned to have any "Heroes", there are people who I look up to for inspiration, but "Heroes" well, I dont know if they exist.

[jgraz]

27. lol -- "not to start a flame war"

Not to start a flame war, but Cindy Sheehan sucks. So does her dead son.

And Democrats are stupid,

And Rosie O'Donnell is fat.

But don't flame me. I'm really not a troll or anything. Really.

[revolve]

28. Crap, you figured me out

I dont honestly wonder that, I was just trying to piss off the darn lefties

[gobblechops]

30. some of mine

MLK
FDR
Gandhi
Mandela
Barbra Jordan
Rosa Parks
Jimmy Carter
Howard Dean
Mohammad Ali
Micheal moore

[frustrated_lefty]

31. Some...

John Wayne. Love him or hate him, you ALWAYS knew where he stood. In the words of Richard Pryor, the man "kicked death's ass."

Katherine Hepburn. Tough, classy old bird.

Alexander Hamilton. True patriot.
Al Gore. Another true patriot.
JFK. The right man at the right time.

Lao Tzu. A man with wisdom.
Kierkegaard. A man trying to find the wisdom for his time.

Johnny Cash. THE man in black.
The Dixie Chicks. That Rolling Stones cover spoke mountains.
Pink. Dear Mr. President.

J.J. Oppenheimer. The first to realize what he'd wrought.
Non-linear dynamicists. Those crazy few seeking theory in chaos.

Kathryn Yronwode.
Kinsey.

Walter Cronkite.
Keith Olbermann.

[LeftishBrit]

32. Gandhi

Nelson Mandela

Desmond Tutu

Martin Luther King

The Pankhursts, Emily Davison and all the Suffragettes

The Chartists

All 19th century trade unionists - it was NOT safe then!

Among politicians: Clement Attlee and Nye Bevan
(who introduced the NHS)

[BlueIris]

34. Redstone.

Oh, and John Conyers.

[LWolf]

35. My heroes are

mothers who nurture and protect their young

fathers who do the same

Anonymous people who give more than they take, leaving their corner of the world a better place when they pass on

All those who value kindness, patience, empathy, humility, curiosity, knowledge, critical thinking, honesty, integrity, responsibility, generosity, open-mindedness, appreciation of and for individual and cultural differences, and the rest of life on the planet, and who integrate those values into who they are and how they live.

Those who have the courage to stand for the highest and best that humans are capable of, whether or not they stand alone.

While their are public figures that I admire, appreciate, and respect, I don't think of them as "heroes." The heroes are the unsung, faceless, nameless people who make the world a better place just by being who they are.