in your opinion who are the most courageous well-known people in this world and why?

Question

they have to be people that many people would know like rosa parks, Neil Armstrong etc.

Answer 1

Let's see Gandhi, the Polish Solidarity Leader, Martin Luther King and Martin Luther the religious reformer. Anyone who chose to protest and face danger.

Answer 2

Honestly, How about a much simpler answer?

How about raising children? This is the most courageous job of all, and it takes the most courageous of people to do it successfully. No matter if you are young, old, married, divorced, single, heterosexual or homosexual....parenting is a terrifying endeavor for all.
You are responsible for a life or lives.
You have to make sure you raise them to be good human beings. That is very hard work. You have to exercise a workable amount of love with discipline, being extra careful not to spoil them or punish them too harshly.
And when they screw up...as all kids do at some point in their lives, be it a small or a huge screw up...who is to blame? The parent (s).

Answer 3

I suggest Congressman Keith Ellison who withstood politely the bigoted and hate-mongering statements from Rep.Virgil H.,Goodi Jr. Also ,Malcom X who tried to make African Americans get their legal rights by peaceful means.

Answer 4

I agree 100% with Ghandi, Walesa and Martin Luther King.

When I first read the question I was trying to think of people who are still alive, so I'm going to add a few of them.

Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, who dares to defy our president, offering aid to Katrina victims even as our own country abandons them, offering affordable oil to entire townships in the US, trading oil for medicine, giving to the poor, but the courageous part is that he thumbs his nose at a president who would love to see him dead (as would Pat Robertson).

Another is Nelson Mandela, the president of South Africa, for reasons we all probably know.

Another is Cindy Sheehan, for dedicating her life, after losing her son in the Iraq war, to trying to save more mothers from the grief she suffered, risking arrest and worse as she keeps the horrors of the war in the spotlight as much as possible.

And here is my list of who is NOT courageous. All the generals who did not protest the Iraq war when they were in the Army, but who are now willing to criticise it once they're out. COlin Powell, for the same reasons. President Ford fo rthe same reasaons. All it takes for evil to triumph is good men to remain silent. These people, who were more interested in their careers (in the case of the generals and Colin Powell) or decorum (in the case of Ford) could have saved countless lives had they stood up, individually or together, and said "this is wrong"!

OK, I'm EDITING MINE to add Keith Ellison - absolutely right!

Answer 5

There are many Black who fought for their rights in peaceful atmosphere under most hostile condition. Nelson Mandela is living example.