Tuesday, April 30, 2013

My list of 20 inspirational people in no particular order ( I may add more later)

1. Malala Yousafzai: 14 year old girl who was shot by the Taliban who took a stand for freedom of womens' rights and education.

2.Michelle Obama: She has a plan and a goal to make our young people less obese by encouraging kids to exercise, and by restructuring the school lunch program.

3.Martin Luther King Jr.: Non-violent civil rights leader.

4.Martin Luther: Key figure in Protestant reformation (its because of him he have more religious diversity then just cults and catholicism.)

5.Mahatma Ghandi: The principle figurehead of the Indian indepedence movement. He taught a philosophy of non- violence and peaceful protests.

6.Mu'ath: 12 year old blind boy who memorized the entire Quran ( think of how many people memorized the bible let alone while blind.)

7.Samuel Johnson: British author and the creator of the dictionary.

8.Louis Pasteur: French chemist and biologist who developed antidotes to the dangerous illnesses anthrax and rabies. Also, he discovered a way to pasteurize milk.

9.Albert Einstein: German Physicist.

10.Rosa Parks: Civil rights activist.

11.Tim Berners Lee: Creator of the world wide web.

12.Bill Gates: Founder of Microsoft.

13.John Lennon: British popstar and one of the Beatles. He was an icon of the 1960's counter culture revolution.

14.George Orwell: English author whose object was not to promote a certain view, but to arrive at the truth, exposing the hypocrisy and injustice prevalent in society.

15.Helen Keller: Despite disability of both blindness and deafness, she learned to read and write.

16.Eleanor Roosevelt: She helped to draft the United Nations declaration of human rights. In the United states she strived to improve civil rights.

17.Edward Jenner: He led pioneering work on innoculations for small pox.

18.Leo Tolstoy: Influential author, wrote "War and Peace". He had a philosophy of non-violence and a return to rural society.

19.Jesse Owens: He won four gold medals at Hitler's 1936 olympics one of the great moments in track history. This victory helped to puncture the Nazi ideology of Aryan supremacy.

20.Jane Goodall: She made a groundbreaking study into the behavior of chimpanzee's. She became a noted campaigner and activist for environmental protection and kindness to animals

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