"Individuals who dared to go against the grain... "
Individuals who dared to go against the grain, with self discipline, a willingness to take risks and expend the effort to exploit their gifts and, in so doing, to provide untold benefits for human kind: 1) Abraham Lincoln, abolishment of slavery; 2) Benjamin Franklin, promoter of American Ideals; 3) Albert Einstein, scientific genius with many significant breakthroughs and champion of human rights; 4) Marie Curie, advances in medicine; 5) Winston Churchill, leadership during the dark days of War Two, who inspired free nations against Hitler's Germany; 6) Joan of Arc, an illiterate peasant girl who promoted French Unity; 7) William Shakespeare, King of English Literature whose body of work captured the richness and diversity of human existence; 8) Anne Frank, an ordinary teenage girl who became a symbol of optimism in the face of man's inhumanity to man; 9) Steve Jobs, Founder of Apple who advanced new standards of computer design technology; 10) Amadeus Mozart, musical genius who gave joy to many. 11) Lech Walesa, Polish Patriot dedicated to ending communist Rule; John F. Kennedy, who offered a new vision of what might be possible for his country. There are many more. I leave them for you to post or ignore.
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyAn interesting list of heroes; I not sure they all "went against the grain" though. Shakespeare for example?
[b]"Individuals who dared to go against the grain... "
Individuals who dared to go against the grain, with self discipline, a willingness to take risks and expend the effort to exploit their gifts and, in so doing, to provide untold benefits for human kind: 1) Abraham Lincoln, abolishment of slavery; 2) Benjamin Franklin, promot ...[text shortened]... possible for his country. There are many more. I leave them for you to post or ignore.
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyLuther
[b]"Individuals who dared to go against the grain... "
Individuals who dared to go against the grain, with self discipline, a willingness to take risks and expend the effort to exploit their gifts and, in so doing, to provide untold benefits for human kind: 1) Abraham Lincoln, abolishment of slavery; 2) Benjamin Franklin, promot ...[text shortened]... possible for his country. There are many more. I leave them for you to post or ignore.
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M.L. King jr.
Every Christian who was ever put to death or imprisoned for their faith.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyThe list should include Hans The Woodkrafteur. He went against the grain on many occasions, sometimes the wood split, but mostly it turned out.
[b]"Individuals who dared to go against the grain... "
Individuals who dared to go against the grain, with self discipline, a willingness to take risks and expend the effort to exploit their gifts and, in so doing, to provide untold benefits for human kind: 1) Abraham Lincoln, abolishment of slavery; 2) Benjamin Franklin, promot ...[text shortened]... possible for his country. There are many more. I leave them for you to post or ignore.
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Hi Gramps.
I cannot see anybody on that list that went against the grain.
They all did great things but if anything they flowed with the current thinking
or did what was expected of them.
I think the lad who really went against the grain and set himself up for ridicule
was Charles Darwin. His was a really revolutionary concept and it definitely
went against the grain of the thinking of the time. It still does.
