Quotations and Literature Forum

I am not sure how many people acutally view him as a hero even in his country, if you think of all the Cuban refugees that came over to the US becasue of him and the celebration when he was ill and it was said that he was dead

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Every man carries a circle of hell around his head like a halo. Every man, every man has to go through hell to reach his paradise.
Robert De Niro, Cape Fear

You can't base the opinio of a country on the actions of a few, one of my friends went to cuba, illegally but that's not the point, and when he came back he said that absolutely every person he had talked to while there LOVED Fidel, he said it was something akin to hero worship.

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Sanctuary: a small safe place in a troubling world

Alexander the Great- hands down. Never lived a more brilliant general (in my opinion) but it's his attitude toward expansion and history that makes him my pick.

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."
-Alexander the Great

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"If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through."

-Blackadder

Nelson Mandela.

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There is no god higher than Truth.

Mahatma Ghandi

cdsg,

Communist dictators shoot people who don't like 'em. Just bear that in mind. And hero worship is only natural under such a threat and the fact that you've totally bombarded from a child with propaganda images. North Korea is a nice little comparison.

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"The proper study of mankind is man."
Alexander Pope

I'm not saying that he's my hero, I believe that we were talking about heros that many people would think unconventional. i mearly brought it up as a point of fact in this line of conversation.

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Sanctuary: a small safe place in a troubling world

You hate communism, you hate communists, you are not objective, no need to elaborate.

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Fish, I am sorry to say that, as you have never lived in a socialist (not communist, because communism hasn't been established yet) country and your only sources I believe come from the strongly anti-communist West, you have no idea about what has been happening in Cuba. Socialism saved Cuba from the pro-american Batista regime, which was oppressive and harmful to the Cuban people. That is why Cubans view Castro as a hero. They owe their freedom to the revolutionaries who overthrew Batista. You are as indoctrinated to capitalism as the Cubans are to socialism. So stop it.

My heroes and heroines of history are the volunteers who fought in the Spanish civil war. They left their homes behind and went on the Spanish front, showing solidarity such as today's world can only dream of.

che

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Re vera, cara mea, mea nil refert.

Joan of Arc accepted and accomplished what anybody would have to say was the most impossible and burdensome task ever imposed on a human being.


"In the history of the human intellect.... nothing approaches this. Joan of Arc stands alone." --- Mart Twain, 1906 essay
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/stj05003.htm


"Joan is a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind, that she finds no equal in a thousand years." --- Winston Churchill, Birth of Britain

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"I am not afraid... I was born to do this"

"Help yourself. God will help you" ( Aide toi. Dieu t'aidera. )

--- Joan of Arc

William Wallace. Whether he actually existed or not, just the idea is enough.

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As it was, then again it will be.
Though the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.

and what about William Wallace?

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"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
Voltaire

Eleanor Roosevelt

Not only was she a wonderful humanitarian in an era, in which our country greatly needed one, she was also a woman who forged her own identity during a time that women were being told that they were only mere extensions of their husband.

For heros that may be more myth then fact I would have to say Robin Hood and King Arthur are among my faveorites.

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Every man carries a circle of hell around his head like a halo. Every man, every man has to go through hell to reach his paradise.
Robert De Niro, Cape Fear

I think he was a hero besides His odd practices atleast to his people. and what makes a hero a hero anyway ? how do u weigh valor ? there are soo many names to name and many who well deserve it. but i think i choose Mr.paine writer of "common sense" the result of his document and they way he wrote it was the revolution . and i think it is fair to say the worl would be much different had america not been established . for bett or worse .

~ the daydreamer.

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I am a member of mankind but denounce yet indulge in our common flaws and blessings - emotion.

my hero would be Skenderbeg who was a guy who freed albanians