Despair blights the lives of too many people. Yet, throughout human history, so many different individuals have chosen to act and, in doing so, have changes everything; for example these very few out of so many.
Abraham
Zoroaster
Hammurabi
Moses
Phidippides
Pericles
Alexander the Great
Cincinnatus
Caesar
Augustus
Jesus of Nazareth
Paul
Constantine the Great
Mohammed
Gregory the Great
Charlemagne
Alfred the Great
William the Conqueror
Genghis Khan
Joan of Arc
Martin Luther
Ignatius of Loyola
Catherine de Medici
Queen Elizabeth I, Tudor
John Locke
Louis XIV
Frederick the Great
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
Mao Tse-Tung
Simon Wiesenthal
The Anonymous Chinese Man facing the Tanks near Tienanmen Square, June 4, A. D. 1989
Nelson Mandela