Should Heroes Be Defined as People Who Say What They Think When Ourselves Lack the Courage to Say It?
苗亦扬
Should heroes be defined as people who say what they think when ourselves lack the courage to say it?
Throughout hundreds of years have people considered heroes as someone who sacrifice themselves physically in precarious circumstances, along with innocent people being rescued or justice being promoted.
What the definition of hero actually is seems ambiguous to everyone with different religious faith and nationality. As time goes by, a group of people who emerge at the most critical occasion stand out to speak aloud for others’ sake even they break their beliefs; we then regard them as heroes as well. Universally recognized by people all over the world, these sagacious heroes, in order to defend their advocators and stands, use strategies of speech and knowledge accumulated in their mind, fight against their enemies and disseminate their advocacy to more people.
I have a dream was not merely a speech made by Martin Luther King, but a spirit of advancement of civil rights in the United States or even the world that influences so many youth and their descendants till now. At the time of civil rights movement, African Americans were discriminated and segregated by the White; but no one had the courage and perseverance to end such discrimination. Martin Luther King, on the contrary, established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which leaded his first influential step of the movement. With more follows and reputation gained, King thought that he should be the one that stood in front of the public, maintained the rights of African Americans and let the society changed. He spoke what the African Americans wanted to say, evoked them to fight for their own freedom and authorities. King’s speech was so successful that people under the stage naturally interact with him and acclaim for him. He was a common man, but how he different from others is that he said what people lack the courage to speak out and the insistence to rebel the discrimination until
Should heroes be defined as people who say what they think when ourselves lack the courage to say it?
Throughout hundreds of years have people considered heroes as someone who sacrifice themselves physically in precarious circumstances, along with innocent people being rescued or justice being promoted.
What the definition of hero actually is seems ambiguous to everyone with different religious faith and nationality. As time goes by, a group of people who emerge at the most critical occasion stand out to speak aloud for others’ sake even they break their beliefs; we then regard them as heroes as well. Universally recognized by people all over the world, these sagacious heroes, in order to defend their advocators and stands, use strategies of speech and knowledge accumulated in their mind, fight against their enemies and disseminate their advocacy to more people.
I have a dream was not merely a speech made by Martin Luther King, but a spirit of advancement of civil rights in the United States or even the world that influences so many youth and their descendants till now. At the time of civil rights movement, African Americans were discriminated and segregated by the White; but no one had the courage and perseverance to end such discrimination. Martin Luther King, on the contrary, established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which leaded his first influential step of the movement. With more follows and reputation gained, King thought that he should be the one that stood in front of the public, maintained the rights of African Americans and let the society changed. He spoke what the African Americans wanted to say, evoked them to fight for their own freedom and authorities. King’s speech was so successful that people under the stage naturally interact with him and acclaim for him. He was a common man, but how he different from others is that he said what people lack the courage to speak out and the insistence to rebel the discrimination until