Do you have any role models/personal heroes? Who are they?

[More Than A Feeling]

I thought it would be cool to see who people look to for examples of morality in action to imitate or moral guidance.

[enigmatic]

1. These 2 are personal heroes of mine

Charles Bukowski
http://bukowski.net/


Tommy Douglas
http://www.tommydouglas.ca/tommy

[Indi Guy]

2. OK - Modern day:

George Washington
First President, 1789–1797
“I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct that may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.”
Founding Father






Abraham Lincoln
Sixteenth President, 1861–1865
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.”
—Second Inaugural Address, 1864





Theodore Roosevelt
Twenty-Sixth President, 1901–1909
“Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
—West African proverb, often quoted by Roosevelt.

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/president/gallery/detail.cfm?prez_ID=25





John F. Kennedy
Thirty-Fifth President, 1961–1963
“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/president/gallery/detail.cfm?prez_ID=34

[WCGreen]

3. Swag is my hero....

Honestly, who wouldn't want to be like Swag...

[Indi Guy]

5. Forgive my ignorance...

Please explain "Swag"...

[WCGreen]

9. He is a poster here on DU....

[SeattleGirl]

4. My mom. She taught me how to be a good mother, a good person,

and a good liberal.

[Orsino]

6. Kucinich. Feingold. Gore. Randi.

Those who speak truth to power without backing down.

[SoxFan]

7. Two of mine

Joseph Cardinal Bernardin. A forceful voice for respecting the seamless garment of life, who showed what Christianity is all about through his strength, dignity, and forgiving nature.



Harry Truman. Tough as nails, a man whose family values would shame the demagogues of the Far Right, a guy who undertood perserverance. My favorite president.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Thomas Jefferson, Churchill, Sherlock Holmes, Frank Zappa

[bigwillq]

10. My parents.

My Nonni to a certain extent but she hasn't made the best of decisions in the last, oh, 30 years that has affected the family but I still love her.

[MissMillie]

11. these two beautiful people

These two people are the best example in the world of how people should treat each other.


And yes, they are my parents.

[NightWatcher]

12. Thasuka Witko and Goyaale

or Crazy Horse and Geronimo as they are better known

[NewWaveChick1981]

13. Jimmy Carter and Keith Olbermann.

:) I have always thought that Jimmy Carter was/is a man of deep integrity and practices what he preaches. He was governor in GA when I was growing up there, and I liked him from day one. Keith Olbermann is the only journalist who will stand up to Bushco and speak his mind. :bounce: :toast: He does it with grace and intelligence, and his assessments are dead on.