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My Hero "A hero is a person that helps to make the world a better place, a person who people can look up to." By Alicia Massachusetts born Lydia Marie Child was an amazing women, she was a women’s rights activist, abolitionist, and a writer. She believed that women, men and blacks should be treated equal, and through her career she learned that sometimes you had to use violence to get things done. Lydia believed that women and slaves were similar in the way that men treated them like they were possessions rather then people. Even though she believed in equal rights for women she didn’t believe in all-female societies, she believed that men and women could achieve more together rather then by themselves. She helped found raise for the first anti-slavery fair and she organized and supported an anti-slavery society. She wrote books pamphlets and poems about the issues she believed in. I believe that Lydia is a hero because she is someone that people can look up to. She was someone that wasn’t afraid to stand up for what she believed in and speak her opinion even when people disagreed with it. If she hadn’t stood up for women and the blacks who would’ve? She was an amazing leader as well as an amazing human being. And she is an outstanding role model, she shows people that when you see something wrong you should step up and say something, and that any one can make a difference. Lydia wrote many books about slavery, equality and violence to show people that the way they were being treated or treating others was wrong. She supported and organized anti-slavery societies and helped to fund-raise for the first anti-slavery fair held in Boston 1834. She became the editor for the American Slave Society’s National Anti-Slavery Standard in 1841. She was also a member of the American Anti-Slavery Society’s executive board with Lucretia Mott and Maria Weston Chapman during the 1840s and 1850s. But she left the paper because she refused to promote the violence was acceptable for the battle of slavery, but she soon realized that there was sometimes a need for the violence. If she was still alive today I think she’d tell people not to judge a book by it’s cover. I think she’d be happy that her efforts were somewhat of a success and she’d show the people who still judge people by what they look like how wrong it is. I also think she’d tell kids that they can make a difference as long as they are determined and will never give up on what they want.

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