History's Heroes: STO or STS?

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In our current society, there seems to be a general consensus that activists in the past were revolutionary thinkers, courageous, and even heroes. Some examples include the abolitionists and those who helped the Jews during the holocaust.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abo...lery.shtml

[font=Helvetica, sans-serif]The Unsung Heroes of Abolition
By Adam Hochschild
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In 1787, approximately three quarters of the people on Earth lived under some form of enslavement, serfdom, debt bondage or indentured servitude. This was the year the popular movement against the British slave trade suddenly ignited. There were no slaves in Britain itself, but the vast majority of its people accepted slavery in the British West Indies as perfectly normal.
It took an unusual streak of independence to challenge this assumption. Who were the abolitionists and where did they get the revolutionary idea that slavery was wrong? Prominent campaigners like William Wilberforce and Olaudah Equiano are well documented. This gallery is an introduction to some of the other people who played important roles in this pioneering movement for human rights.

from http://www.victorianweb.org/history/slavery/1.html

Abolitionist Heroes

Mid to late nineteenth century

Wood-engraving
[font=Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica sans-serif']A framed print of this engraving hangs in the bar of the Falcon, Clapham Junction, as a reminder of those prominent members of the Clapham Sectwho campaigned successfully for the abolition of the slave trade. As well as Wilberforce and other notables, it depicts Thomas Fowler Buxton, the abolitionist whose memorial drinking fountain now stands in Victoria Tower Gardens, Westminster.
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10 Little Known Heroes of the Holocaust
When we think of Holocaust heroes, most of us think of Oskar Schindler and his famous list. Yet Schindler was just one of many men and women who took a stand against Hitler’s Final Solution. Here are ten little known heroes who risked everything they had for their fellow human beings.

from http://www.shalomshow.com/holocaust_heroes.htm

The Holocaust was a time of overwhelming terror and enduring grief.  The ultimate expression of man’s inhumanity with hardly a trace of human kindness to lighten that darkness.   However there were some deeds of courage and compassion during the Holocaust that one can consider when contemplating humanity's  past and hope for the future.

The following are only some of the extraordinary men and women, who, at very great personal risk have acted to save lives.

Most of their deeds were unnoticed and not acknowledged during their lifetimes but many have been honored by Israel’s Yad Vashem memorial with the title “Righteous among the Nations” or “Righteous Gentiles” recognizing those non-Jews who helped save Jews from the Holocaust.

Remembering four heroes of the Holocaust

It is my deepest hope that the book will cause many to dig into the real history of these remarkable heroes.

There are countless more examples of these activists being considered 'heroes'.


Is this a mistake on the part of society to regard them thusly? By Law of One standards, are they actually STS entities instead?

You journey homeward. How shall you journey?
That is the question of third density. Shall you
journey in the light, seeking ever to become more of
service, more loving, more giving, more aware of the
love within each moment? Or shall you enjoy the
dark path where the self is seen immediately as the
Creator and all other selves are seen as those who
would worship the Creator in you. Thus, the dark
path is one where each who follows it attempts to
coerce, manipulate, or otherwise use all other selves,
to tell them what to do and to make sure they are
useful to the self or moved out of the way of self.
This also is a valid path, yet it is a dark path and a
bloody path. There are those who prefer it.
We are not those. We are those of the radiant path.

Should these activists have NOT tried to help the people oppressed, beaten, and killed? NOT tried to help those who were in bondage and crying out for help...NOT tried to stop hitler's regime from slaughtering thousands of innocent people? Were they in fact STS entities for daring to challenge the oppressors? Should they have, instead, sought to appease the oppressors, so as not to violate their free will to oppress/enslave/kill other-selves?