We need to recognize heroes like Peter McWilliams, who was murdered by the prison system. He was denied cannabis despite his doctors plea for it, and even denied marinol. We especially need to recognize the heroes in the street. We must recognize that most heroes go unrecognized. We need the hero in the street as much as, if not more than spokespeople like Mr. Maher and Mr. Harrelson, and yes, even more than heroes like Todd and Peter.
Any ordinary person can thrive when there is prosperity and comfort.
It takes a real hero to deny themselves that comfort. A real hero wakes up every day knowing that they must fight through the day and may never see any progress or reform. A hero is someone who is ordinary, maybe even a coward. But the hero refuses to give in to thier fear, refuses to be lulled by the actions of being ordinary. The hero longs for freedom from fear, the hero thirsts and aches for the possibilities and do not shrink in fear from thier responsibility to the future.