The question
Which living person do you most admire, and why?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The problem with my job is that you meet people you admire and then you don’t admire them so much. The only one I carried on admiring was Nelson Mandela.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2016 source ↗
The Queen. Long may she reign.
Teachers who recognise that each child is different.
I really appreciate the fact, and I constantly tell Reverend Jackson and Reverend Sharpton that I appreciate the fact that they're fighting for us, because I am an accident of birth.
Barack Obama. On a daily basis he faced racism, and I admire him for trying to push through that to better his nation.
Reading the news. It’s a dull job.
I’d like to say sorry to my mother. I had to choose between my parents, and I chose my father because he didn’t have any other kids. (My mother was a war widow and had two children from her first marriage.) I thought, in a childish way, that one had to be fair. It was very difficult for my mother and me, and we never really got over it.
Recently, when I got out of hospital and into my own bed with my wife and 10-year-old son; we watched some crap television and life had never seemed better.
I would have behaved better to my first wife, and the girl I lived with afterwards. I was always away.
Comfort, warmth and security.
Gloria Steinem, Desmond Tutu, Barack Obama, Sarah Brown, Kirsty Wark, Albie Sachs
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