People I admire and why

I admire a lot of people and they're often quite different from each other.

What they nearly all have in common is that they're fighters.

If I give you a brief list of about a dozen or so you may see what I mean a bit.

These are not in any particular order.


Nelson Mandela

Elizabeth Fry

Michael Sadler

Richard Oastler

William Cobbett

Earl of Shaftesbury

Martin Luther King

Elizabeth I

David Ben Gurion

I could go on but it gives you a bit of an idea.

All of them stood up for what they believed to be right even though people - often most people - told them it wouldn't work and they might as well roll over and die.

They had the guts to keep on fighting and eventually they won.

Good for them!