Heroes are people who experience a difficulty and then jump at the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others. They work tirelessly to make this world a better place, sometimes just one person at a time.
Princess Diana Spencer
By: Rosemary from Boca Raton
Dikembe Mutombo
By: Evan from Boca Raton
Clara Barton
By: Natalie from Boca Raton
Cesar Chavez
By: Peter from Boca Raton
“The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.”
Al Gore
By: Guillermo from Boca Raton
“No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.”
Helen Adams Keller
By: Kayla from Florida
Jimmy Carter
By: Billy from Boca Raton
Jimmy Carter- "It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail."
Oprah Winfrey
By: Taylor from Boca Raton
"I think that education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves."
Oprah Winrey
By: Devin from Boca Raton
Raoul Wallenberg
By: Sam from Boca Raton
"To me there's no other choice. I've accepted this assignment and I could never return to Stockholm without the knowledge that I'd done everything in human power to save as many Jews as possible."
Stephen Robert Irwin
By: Josh from Boca Raton
“My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.”
Angelina Jolie
By: Chloe from Boca Raton
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life
Christopher Reeve
By: Dakota from Boca Raton
"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
Natalie Portman
By: Hunter from Boca Raton
Angelina Jolie
By: Alex from Boca Raton
“Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.”
Kofi Annan
By: Randy from Boca Raton
“We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.”
Scarlett Johansson
By: Allie from Boca Raton
"It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory."
Jacques Yves Cousteau
By: David from Boca Raton
Sylvia Earle
By: Morgan from Boca Raton
“We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us.”
Amelia Earhart
By: Jaye from Boca Raton
"I want to do it because I want to do it."
Tenzing Norgay
By: Genevieve from Boca Raton
"If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest."
Ella J. Baker
By: Rebecca from Boca Raton
Ella J. Baker
was an early and life-long civil rights activist.
Harriet Tubman
By: Cole from Boca Raton
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
Harriet Tubman
By: Chloe from Boca Raton
"Children, if you are tired, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste freedom, keep going."
Harriet Tubman
By: Juliette from Boca Raton
"Canada is not merely a neighbor of Negroes. Deep in our history of struggle for freedom, Canada was the North Star."
Mahatma Gandhi
By: Stephen from Boca Raton
Mohandas K. Gandhi
By: Nick from Boca Raton
"If we are ever to have real peace in this world we shall have to begin with the children"
Nelson Mandela
By: Lauren from Boca Raton
"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. "
Olympe de Gouges
By: Danny from Boca Raton
Olympe de Gouges
was a French playwright, feminist and abolitionist.
Rosa Parks
By: Jenna from Boca Raton
“I am not tired physically. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
Rosa Parks
By: Caroline from Boca Raton
“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”
Simon Bolivar
By: Arturo from Boca Raton
Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the fatherland. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the Union, I shall lowered in peace into my grave.
Winston Churchill
By: Mark from Boca Raton
"All who fight against Nazidom will have our aid"
Mother Teresa
By: Sabrina from Boca Raton
"We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love.”
Mother Teresa
By: Sara from Boca Raton
Scarlett Johansson
By: Tyla from Boca Raton
Bill Gates
By: Flaminia from Boca Raton
Chesley B. Sullenberger
By: Michael from Boca Raton
Chesley Sullenberger
By: Chuck from Boca Raton
I thought about my family, my friends, my house back in Charlotte and I seriously wished I had made my bed that day ... You think about crazy things.
Chesley Sullenberger
By: Derek from Boca Raton
Clara Barton
By: Lindsey from Boca Raton
The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
Diana Frances Spencer
By: Adrian From Boca Raton
"HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it."
Jonas Salk
By: Mitre from Boca Raton
"There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality." `Jonas Salk
Bono
By: Eric from Boca Raton
"To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater. "
Paul Hewson
By: Sean from Boca Raton
''As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both''.
Woody Guthrie
By: Taylor from Boca Raton
14th Dalai Lama
By: Alexa from Boca Raton
"If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them."
Mother Teresa
By: Sabrina from Boca Raton
"We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love.”
Mother Teresa
By: Sara from Boca Raton
Scarlett Johansson
By: Tyla from Boca Raton
Bill Gates
By: Flaminia from Boca Raton
Chesley B. Sullenberger
By: Michael from Boca Raton
Chesley Sullenberger
By: Chuck from Boca Raton
I thought about my family, my friends, my house back in Charlotte and I seriously wished I had made my bed that day ... You think about crazy things.
Chesley Sullenberger
By: Derek from Boca Raton
Clara Barton
By: Lindsey from Boca Raton
The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
Diana Frances Spencer
By: Adrian From Boca Raton
"HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it."
Jonas Salk
By: Mitre from Boca Raton
"There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality." `Jonas Salk
Bono
By: Eric from Boca Raton
"To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater. "
Paul Hewson
By: Sean from Boca Raton
''As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both''.
John Lennon
By: Meagan from Boca Raton
"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
Nelson Mandela
By: Lindsay from Boca Raton
From Nothing to Savior
Nelson R. Mandela
By: Dylan from Boca Raton
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing.
Nelson R. Mandela
By: Jacob from Boca Raton
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
By: Conor from Boca Raton
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
By: Erin from Boca Raton
“I will go down on my knees to beg those who want to drag our country into bloodshed.”
Oprah Winfrey
By: Megan from Boca Raton
"Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education is the path to the future. I believe that education is indeed freedom."
Yitzhak Rabin
By: Robert from Boca Raton
"Give peace a chance"
Walt Whitman
By: Austin from Boca Raton
Albert Einstein
By: Brandon from Boca Raton
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
Jackie Robinson
By: Dylan from Boca Raton
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Jackie Roosevelt Robinson
By: Collin from Boca Raton
Wilma Rudolph
By: Briella from Boca Raton
Amelia Earhart
By: Mackenzie from Boca Raton
“I want to do it, because I want to do it.”
Gladys Aylward
By: Hayley from Boca Raton
Gladys Aylward
By: Luis Aular from Boca Raton
“If God has called you to China or any other place and you are sure in your own heart, let nothing deter you….Remember, it is God who has called you and it is the same as when He
Helen Keller
By: Carly from Boca Raton
“Blindness cuts people off from things, deafness cuts people off from people.”
Oprah Winfrey
By: Sydney from Boca Raton
"I think that education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves."
Oprah Winfrey
By: Megan from Boca Raton
Princess Diana
By: Samantha from Boca Raton
"Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can. "
Princess Diana Spencer
By: Melanie from Boca Raton
"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."
Princess Diana Spencer
By: Ariana from Boca Raton
"Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can."
Organizer created on 1/27/2010 6:24:19 AM by Jackie Gorora
