Greatest Social Impact

MrBishop · 09-20-2005, 10:47 AM

Which of the last century's social leaders would you say had the largest impacts on todays world as we know it? (positive or negative)

Ghandi
Dr. Martin Luther King jr.
Susan B. Anthony
Adolf Hitler
Nelson Mandella
Lenin
Ho Chi Minh
Freud
Einstein

etc etc...

Spock · 09-20-2005, 11:36 AM

you have a mixed bag of politicians, dictators, thinkers and 'rights' people....IMO not all fit into the category "social leaders".

brownjenkins · 09-20-2005, 12:19 PM

ghandi, fdr and hitler

Lotesse · 09-20-2005, 12:25 PM

Che Guevara

Spock · 09-20-2005, 12:28 PM

How about Susan B. Anthony for a SOCIAL leader? Womens rights created an entirely new society and it started with her.....basically.

sun-star · 09-20-2005, 12:34 PM

In the US, perhaps. Not in the world as a whole.

IMO, social change isn't usually brought about by individuals alone, unlike other kinds of change (political, technological etc). That said, I nominate Hitler and Lenin/Stalin, simply because of the huge effects their actions had on millions of people in the twentieth century.

Finrod Felagund · 12-24-2005, 04:11 AM

Winston Churchill

Lotesse · 12-24-2005, 05:43 PM

and John Fitzgerald Kennedy! and Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X, and Gertrude Stein. And Cornelius Vanderbilt, for building all the trains & railways going all over America.

EarthBound · 01-12-2006, 12:09 PM

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead

*thought is appropriate - eb

rohirrim TR · 01-12-2006, 12:19 PM

J.R.R Tolkien, he revolutionized fantasy, the world would not be the same without The Lord of the Rings.

George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, for SW and Indiana Jones, and making film history.

rohirrim TR · 01-12-2006, 04:30 PM

Galileo .

Nicolaus Copernicus.

Sir Isac Newton.

Spock mentioned Albert Einstein.

Neil Armstrong.

Yuri Gagarin.

09-20-2005, 10:47 AM	#1
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09-20-2005, 11:36 AM	#2
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	you have a mixed bag of politicians, dictators, thinkers and 'rights' people....IMO not all fit into the category "social leaders". __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

09-20-2005, 12:19 PM	#3
brownjenkins Advocatus Diaboli Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Reality Posts: 3,767	ghandi, fdr and hitler __________________ Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.

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Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	Che Guevara __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

09-20-2005, 12:28 PM	#5
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	How about Susan B. Anthony for a SOCIAL leader? Womens rights created an entirely new society and it started with her.....basically. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

09-20-2005, 12:34 PM	#6
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	In the US, perhaps. Not in the world as a whole. IMO, social change isn't usually brought about by individuals alone, unlike other kinds of change (political, technological etc). That said, I nominate Hitler and Lenin/Stalin, simply because of the huge effects their actions had on millions of people in the twentieth century. __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

12-24-2005, 04:11 AM	#7
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12-24-2005, 05:43 PM	#8
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	and John Fitzgerald Kennedy! and Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X, and Gertrude Stein. And Cornelius Vanderbilt, for building all the trains & railways going all over America. __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

01-12-2006, 12:09 PM	#9
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