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10 Kind Acts from The Unlikeliest Of Heroes
10 Kind Acts from The Unlikeliest Of Heroes
Even in our darkest hours, people rise to the plate to do the right thing. There is always a candle even in the darkest space. Some of those who do good are the last person we would expect to do so. When a group of people does evil, not all members of the group are always compliant. There are always people who are members of a group on the wrong side of history, but they try to do good. Here are ten examples of just that.
Slave-Owners That Freed Their Slaves Before 1861
There were a few notable slave-owners who freed their slaves well before the start of the Civil War.
One of the most notable was Robert Carter III who freed his slaves in the 1770âs, almost a hundred years before the war that would ultimately end slavery. Because of opposition from his family, he ended up only freeing 15 a year until they were gone.
Unlike many owners who freed their slaves, he did not burden them with debt nor did he overcharge them to lease land. He also wrote a stipulation in his will so that his family members couldnât undo his good work after his death.
The Nazi Declared Righteous By Jews
Zoltan Kubinyi was odd from the first day of Nazi-occupation of his native Hungary. He was a conscientious-objector who refused to carry a gun. He was a devout Seventh Day Adventist. You would imagine someone like him being sent off to the labor camps, but he was in charge of one of them.
He was known for being kind to the Jews sent to his camp. He allowed them to celebrate their holy days and sneaked them extra food so they wouldnât starve to death.
But his kindness didnât end there. Toward the end of the war, when he was ordered to send all of them to the gas chambers, he marched them the other way to safety. He died in anonymity, but he is now listed as one of the Righteous Among the Nations in the world-famous Yad Vashem museum commemorating the Holocaust.
10 Kind Acts from The Unlikeliest Of Heroes
FARC Helping To Clear the Mines They Planted
Columbia has been in a civil war since 1964. The most infamous of the groups in the fight have been the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC). Now former FARC members are helping to clear Columbia of landmines, many of which they had helped to plant. The movement has had such momentum that even current members of FARC have joined the cause of making Columbia safer for its citizens.
Ten years prior to Japanâs invasion of China, China was in the midst of a civil war. When Japan invaded, the warring groups united against their enemy, only to start fighting again once the threat was gone.
One side of this civil war, the KMT, are now considered a source of shame by their government. Despite their history of defending China from Japan, they are robbed of pensions and recognition. Some of them live with the wrongfully applied label of âwar criminalâ. This seems to be a case of good guys being placed on the wrong side of history by biased history books.
