Forgotten Heroes of History?

Who still knows Martin Luther King who was fighting against racism and fighting for black people in the 50's and 60's? what would this civil right activist in this time when he has to see that racism is in America up to date again?

True heroes in history are the ones who are fighting for better living conditions and human/civil rights for each other. They should not be forgotten! never!

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username2981082

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Most gay rights activists have been forgotten from history. Few people know who Bayard Rustin or Edward Carpenter was. South American revolutionaries are rarely remembered either. Simon Bolivar for example. Che Guevara is another one. He is remembered for being on T-shirts but hardly anyone knows who he was and what he did

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NJA

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We all know the bad guys of Germany but the good women who helped build and rebuild after the war machine was crushed deserve a mention. They were remembered by Germany on stamps issued in the 80s & 90s. I enjoyed looking at the wiki page for each and writing a summary . . .

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Alexander II

Original post by Onde

Cicero

The cicero who has modernized the Latin language and thus made a contribution that latin became a respecatable one in the the next periods of human history? oh yeah, he is really a forgotten great speaking hero.

Is it true that he had found the grave of archimedes?

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username2553161

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Our own ancestors, beginning with the peasents revolt, right up to the present day.
Most of us will have had unknown ancestors who were evicted, starved, murdered, and kicked off the common land.
Completely forgotten. Few names are remembered.

A large section of our socio-economic history has been wiped from the national memory.

This pithy ditty from 17th century by an unknown sums up the last thousand years, as relevant today as it ever was;

The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose.

The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who takes things that are yours and mine.

The poor and wretched don’t escape
If they conspire the law to break;
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law.

The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back.

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Captain Haddock

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Alonso de Salazar y Frias, an unexpected hero of the Spanish Inquisition, whose remarkable scepticism put a stop to what was shaping up to be one of the largest witch hunts in history. This guy personally interviewed over a thousand confessed witches, many of them children, who had been imprisoned in Navarre and were heading for near certain execution. He noticed the inconsistencies between their testimonies, tested for himself the supposed recipes of witch's potions and found them to be inert, and pleaded with the condemned to retract their confessions. He wrote up a report that condemned the liberal use of torture, and argued that witchcraft was, at most, a delusion. Alonso's findings were officially adopted by the Spanish Inquisition, and subsequently the Roman Inquisition, putting an end to witch hunts in Spain and saving potentially thousands of lives.

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ChaoticButterfly

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Original post by Captain Haddock

Alonso de Salazar y Frias, an unexpected hero of the Spanish Inquisition, whose remarkable scepticism put a stop to what was shaping up to be one of the largest witch hunts in history. This guy personally interviewed over a thousand confessed witches, many of them children, who had been imprisoned in Navarre and were heading for near certain execution. He noticed the inconsistencies between their testimonies, tested for himself the supposed recipes of witch's potions and found them to be inert, and pleaded with the condemned to retract their confessions. He wrote up a report that condemned the liberal use of torture, and argued that witchcraft was, at most, a delusion. Alonso's findings were officially adopted by the Spanish Inquisition, and subsequently the Roman Inquisition, putting an end to witch hunts in Spain and saving potentially thousands of lives.

Is consuming history of witch craft how you spend your life now? :tongue:

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Mystery.

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Pakistan at today's final

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Captain Haddock

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Original post by ChaoticButterfly

Is consuming history of witch craft how you spend your life now? :tongue:

Pre-modern persecutions in general but mainly witches, yes :smile:

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Original post by Onde

but if he was alive today, he'd be considered very anti-democratic.

I thought Robert Harris's (fictionalised) account of his life to be very good.

I have no reason to doubt that the story of him rediscovering Archimedes's tomb is true.

As far as I know Cicero was anadvocate for the old Roman republic to prevent the era of a monarchy, or am I wrong? have not read cicero for so long.

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Original post by Onde

That is correct. But he would probably have opposed a democracy.

So Cicero was maybe fighting for a form of government which was ruled by just a few people, so an aristocratic one?

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