A revolutionary.

Greetings, cannabis.com users. I've come back to you in this time of need with a request...obviously.

My english class is asking of me to write an essay of the three most influential people of the twentieth or twenty-first centuries. I'm looking for something a bit more than just influence, though. Fergie from the Black-eyed Peas influences little girls to parade around shaking their humps, while not taking a stand for whatever it is she's trying to promote. She's being used by the system and doesn't even know it.

I want a revolutionary. Someone who has not only influenced society greatly, but has actually led them with guidance and understanding to a revolution of society or simply a revolution of the mind. I hope this is clear to you all. So I ask of you to list here in this thread people who you think are best suited to be qualified as "influential" based on my standards of the term.

I know this may sound gay, but what about Oprah Winfrey? She has an almost cult following...

i had an assignment like dat......i wrote about ANDY WARHOL and his influence on art...(he started the whole pop art movement and contemporary art has not looked the same since)...........also
SALVADOR DALI ran the surrealist art movement and did some crazy revolutionary art work....
any artist you pick will probly be interesting paper to write bc most artist are crazy... i think that goes hand in hand with being very creative....

If you don't know who Fela Kuti is, check him out!

Emiliano Zapata

Mahatma Gandhi, Che Guevara and Martin Luther King Jr come to mind.

If you want to be on the ballsy side, I'd say Jack Here :thumbsup:

Great suggestions! I think royalHighness brought about a more interesting point of view. It'd be easy for me to write about someone that has great personal influence. For instance, I presume royalHighness enjoys art or is perhaps an artist, so there's people of grandeur who've influenced art as a whole and have given him something to think about. Me on the other hand have no talent, but rather a desire to be an influential leader myself. Hmm...I have a stylish idea for my essay. Keep 'em coming in, guys (and girls).

John Lennon, Bob Marley as well.

Bands like Rage Against the Machine, like guitar player Tom Morello. They were very political in their music and weren't shy from being as blunt as possible.

The Pope perhaps...? The one that died recently. He had a huge impact on the religious community.

Bob marley son.