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Activity: What Does It Mean to Be a Hero?

Step 1: In your private journal write what you think it means to be a hero.

Step 2: Read the "Hero Quotes" below. Try to identify and name the virtues described or touched upon in the quotes.

"The good that Martin Luther King Jr. did remains undiminished... He was great precisely because, like other heroes, he did not allow human weakness to deter him from doing great works." --Carl McClendon ( Agape Love, Courage, Justice, Humility)

"A hero is simply someone who rises above his own human weaknesses, for an hour, a day, a year, to do something stirring." -- Betty Deramus (Courage, Justice, Wisdom)

"Heroism... is endurance for one moment more. -- George Kennan (Letter to Henry Monroe Rogers, July 25, 1921 ( Courage, Patience)

"I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance." -- James A Autry ( Justice)

"Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flaed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments." -- Kevin Costner ( Justice,Patience)

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not hte urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others are whatever cost. -- Authur Ashe ("Points to Ponder" Reader's Digest, Aug. 1994) (Humility, Agape Love)

"When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?"... My answer was that a hero is someone who commits a courageous action without considering the consequences...Now my definition is completely different. I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." --Christopher Reeve (Wisdom, Temperance)

"When you feel the world is against you or you give up hope, you look at your heroes and say, "They were able to do it. They had hard times and a lot of opposition, but they got through it." Then you feel, "I can do it too.:-- John Leguizamo ("Who Are our Heroes?" Parade Magazine, Aug. 6 1995) (Temperance)

"The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready some how to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out into your daily battlefields, and no crows before you when you go out into your daily battlefields, and no crows shout about your coming when you return from your daily victory or defeat." -- Robert Louis Stevenson (Courage)