My all time favorite literary hero is

[kairos12]

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Atticus Finch. I always find my images of him to be inspiring.

[raccoon]

1. The Time Traveller a close second, for me. I'd say first, a tie between Atticus and Huck Finn. nt

I mean the Time Traveller from THE TIME MACHINE, H.G. Wells.

[valerief]

2. Norma Rae. Unions mean freedom. nt

[Brother Buzz]

3. Tom Joad is on my short list

Tom Joad: I been thinking about us, too, about our people living like pigs and good rich land layin' fallow. Or maybe one guy with a million acres and a hundred thousand farmers starvin'. And I been wonderin' if all our folks got together and yelled...

Ma Joad: Oh, Tommy, they'd drag you out and cut you down just like they done to Casy.

Tom Joad: They'd drag me anyways. Sooner or later they'd get me for one thing if not for another. Until then...

Ma Joad: Tommy, you're not aimin' to kill nobody.

Tom Joad: No, Ma, not that. That ain't it. It's just, well as long as I'm an outlaw anyways... maybe I can do somethin'... maybe I can just find out somethin', just scrounge around and maybe find out what it is that's wrong and see if they ain't somethin' that can be done about it. I ain't thought it out all clear, Ma. I can't. I don't know enough.

Ma Joad: How am I gonna know about ya, Tommy? Why they could kill ya and I'd never know. They could hurt ya. How am I gonna know?

Tom Joad: Well, maybe it's like Casy says. A fellow ain't got a soul of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody, then...

Ma Joad: Then what, Tom?

Tom Joad: Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too.

Ma Joad: I don't understand it, Tom.

Tom Joad: Me, neither, Ma, but - just somethin' I been thinkin' about.

[kairos12]

4. I remember that now. That is excellent. Thank you.

Teabagger version: I'll be around to make sure people don't care health care, that children do not receive appropriate nutrition, that only the one percenter's kids can laugh in privatized National Parks, and the willful poor go to privatized prisons.

Such is the state of things.

Sorry response this took a dark turn, but that speech is too great not to remark on things today.

[Brother Buzz]

5. Out here in California, the most strident and outspoken Teabaggers....

are descended from dust bowl refugees. Go figure.