Western Culture Global Presents The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness. #87: Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) was a leader of the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. King's emphasis on freedom helped to eliminate many of the existing laws against blacks in the U.S. and thereby establish equality under the law for all citizens regardless of race. More fundamentally, King, at least during the height of his influence, advocated individualism as opposed to racial collectivism. That is, he promoted the truth that each person is a sovereign being who is ultimately a product of his or her own free will and choices -- as opposed to a racial being who acts not by free choice but by blood or genes. Or in his words, he seeks a world where people will "not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." King's efforts helped to bring to full fruition America's founding vision that all individuals by their nature have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and that government exists to protect, not violate, these rights. Go to #88: Guillaume Dufay Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — Home Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Numerical Order Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Century Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Category
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