I definitely don’t claim to be an expert in this but when I sat and thought about it, three people came to mind.
We watched the movie Gandhi at some point in elementary school. It stuck with me all these years later. Passive resistance. Very cool. He made such a good effort to prove his point.
For some reason what stuck out in the movie, probably because my brain was around nine years old at the time, was how they came for him on horses and he laid down on the ground. Apparently horses have this innate thing in them and will not trample a human if it at all can be avoided, so he knew he’d be safe. I grew up around horses and did not know this until I watched the movie.
I realize now there’s way better themes to take from the movie and if I re-watched it today, more important parts would stand out.
Then there’s the guy from Twelve Years a Slave. Not super famous. Might not even go down in history, or maybe he has, but one of those ordinary people who lived an extraordinary life. Solomon Northup. I loved this story. Read the book and watched the movie each twice.
And I couldn’t not mention Anne Frank. I read The Diary of Anne Frank when I was quite young and it was hard for my little pea brain at the time to make sense of it all but I did love her spirit.
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