the other part of being a hero

"But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was
nothing but misery and struggle for a moldy bit of bread; when
whatsoever I should spend to enable me to live in that world of higher
emotions must needs be taken from the very mouths of those who grew
the wheat and had not bread enough for their children?"
Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921)
"Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a
massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm
having dinner with."
Rachel Corrie (1979-2003)