Pericles

Pericles of Athens was in a family that no one would think reform came out of. Pericles family had dignity, valor, power, and wealth. Pericles family was aristocrats. Pericles grew up an a noble man with respect, but no one at the time knew how he was to change the world forever. Many things happened in Pericles life but I think the most important was his love for a woman not of Greek blood. Since …

…think that even I owe Pericles I thank you but because I thank him for making it that people can have rights. I wouldn’t want to live in a country like China where there is absolute power and if you go against it you will die. I like being able to stand up for what I think is morally right and without Pericles creating this utopia called democracy I wouldn’t be able to.