Who’s your hero?

Is it someone who faced long odds, great challenges and not only stood up to them, but spit in their eye? Someone who overcame all of life’s obstacles and refused to submit to tyranny, oppression, or injustice? Is it a public official, a speaker, a politician? Is it somebody famous or relatively unknown? Is it a police officer, a fireman, or a teacher? Tell us, let us know.

I’ve got several that I’m working on, currently but I’m curious about your heroes. Who’s made a difference in your life, and influenced you? Who should be the next hero/heroine for the Our Heroes section?

Feel free to leave your ideas here. I’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions.

Corey

P.S. In the meantime, here’s a few quotes from another one of my heroes, Ann Richards. Hope you enjoy them.

Let me tell you that I am the only child of a very rough-talking father. So don’t be embarrassed about your language. I’ve either heard it or I can top it.

Recommendation to former president George H. W. Bush in 1992
Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.

On ineffective government programs.
“You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it’s still a pig.”

1988 Democratic National Convention keynote address.
Poor George, he can’t help it — he was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

1988 Democratic National Convention keynote address.
I am delighted to be here with you this evening, because after listening to George Bush all these years, I figured you needed to know what a real Texas accent sounds like.

Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican:

  1. You have to believe that the nation’s current 8-year prosperity was due to the work of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but yesterday’s gasoline prices are all Clinton’s fault.
  2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own.
  3. You have to be against all government programs, but expect Social Security checks on time
  4. You have to believe that AIDS victims deserve their disease, but smokers with lung cancer and overweight individuals with heart disease don’t deserve theirs.
  5. You have to appreciate the power rush that comes with sporting a gun.
  6. You have to believe…everything Rush Limbaugh says.
  7. You have to believe that the agricultural, restaurant, housing and hotel industries can survive without immigrant labor.
  8. You have to believe God hates homosexuality, but loves the death penalty.
  9. You have to believe society is color-blind and growing up black in America doesn’t diminish your opportunities, but you still won’t vote for Alan Keyes.
  10. You have to believe that pollution is OK as long as it makes a profit.
  11. You have to believe in prayer in schools, as long as you don’t pray to Allah or Buddha.
  12. You have to believe Newt Gingrich and Henry Hyde were really faithful husbands.
  13. You have to believe speaking a few Spanish phrases makes you instantly popular in the barrio.
  14. You have to believe that only your own teenagers are still virgins.
  15. You have to be against government interference in business, until your oil company, corporation or Savings and Loan is about to go broke and you beg for a government bail out.
  16. You love Jesus and Jesus loves you and, by the way, Jesus shares your hatred for AIDS victims, homosexuals, and President Clinton.
  17. You have to believe government has nothing to do with providing police protection, national defense, and building roads.
  18. You have to believe a poor, minority student with a disciplinary history and failing grades will be admitted into an elite private school with a $1,000 voucher.