Results: Even Within The Most Evil Person May Be An Ounce Of Good

Joseph Stalin committed genocide and had millions killed, just because their ideologies didn't match his own. But he did write beautiful poetry, and since poetry is the food for the soul, it is optimistic to assume that he had a sliver of goodness in his heart.

Ivan the Terrible, in his bouts of insanity and mental instability ordered massacres that killed thousands. But he did start trade routes with other countries and also helped the arts to grow in a monarchy too.

Under Muammar Gaddafi's rule, Libya had free healthcare, free education, free housing, and no national debt, even though his human rights violations were gruesome. He also dramatically improved Libya's literacy rates.

Genghis Khan was ruthless in conquering nations, but was extremely open to all religions, allowing his subjects to follow any religion they chose

Mussolini increased school attendance rates in Italy. He also played excellent violin. He was also a school headmaster for some years before walking into politics.

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Saddam Hussein's human rights record is atrocious--he had committed genocide by killing thousands of innocents in the Kurdish province. But he was a very big champion of education. Primary school enrollment was 100%, and he had started a literacy program in Iraq, aimed at making the whole population literate.

For most, Hitler is synonymous with pure evil, but strangely enough he embarked on a strong anti-smoking campaign while in power

Ted Bundy, the most famous serial killer actually helped people on suicide hotlines He actually saved lives by taking their calls on a suicide helpline, and using his manipulative personality to convince people that they should continue living. And, like Hannibal Lecter, he also helped the police in catching a notorious serial killer too.

Pol Pot was responsible for almost 2 million deaths in Cambodia and Vietnam. But before he started a revolutionary war, he was a very soft-spoken professor in a university and was loved by everyone.

Under Hirohito Japan was as bad as Nazi Germany back then and there are books upon books of the atrocities Japan committed during World War 2. But he was well educated in Botany and he published several well-respected scientific articles in Botany journals.

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Winston Churchill, who led his country through World War II might also have been responsible for worsening one of India's most awful famines; the prime minister deliberately diverted food away from India to feed Europeans at a time when India desperately needed it.

Martin Luther King, Jr is universally revered for his part in the Civil Rights Movement, King's personal life is less shining. He plagiarized parts of his doctoral thesis and was a notorious womanizer

Chuck Berry may have invented rock 'n' roll, but he had already been convicted of armed robbery by the time he graduated high school. He has had numerous run-ins with the law throughout his life, including one in which he took a 14-year-old girl across state lines in 1962 and one in 1979 for tax evasion.

Charlie Chaplin may have made millions of people laugh, but this groundbreaking funnyman filmmaker also had a bad habit of chasing underage girls. When he was 30, he impregnated a 16-year-old actress, and his next relationship after that was with 15-year-old Lita Grey.

Many were critical of the Mother Teresa's work, alleging that the hospitals and homes that she ran didn't provide proper medical care. Additionally, she opposed basic measures for women's equality that would have empowered many of the people for whom she claimed to advocate.

Despite famously writing that all men are created equal, Thomas Jefferson owned slaves his entire life and had a long-term affair and numerous children with one them, Sally Hemings. T

Roald Dahl, the famous children's author was quite anti-Semitic, but it wasn't until after his death that this became common knowledge. In a 1983 interview, Dahl suggested that Hitler didn't just pick on [the Jews] for no reason, and suggested that there is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity.

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Malcolm X was a thief and drug dealer before becoming a minister and activist

Senator Robert Byrd, who was once a member of the KKK, later renounced racism and segregation, and spoke in opposition to the Iraq War.

Charles Colson was a Watergate co-conspirator and hatchet man for Nixon, and after prison, became an evangelical advocate for prisoners.

Frank Meeink, was a skinhead at age 13 and toured the US as a neo-Nazi recruiter. After a stint in prison, he has become a motivational speaker and released a memoir called Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead. He also coaches children's hockey, which he uses to foster racial tolerance and keep inner-city children out of gangs. Meeink has worked with South African activist Desmond Tutu and spoken on behalf of the Anti-Defamation League, a group that combats anti-Semitism. His life was the basis for the 1998 film American History X.

Joshua Milton Blahyi, also known as General Butt Naked because he often went into battle wearing only shoes was a Liberian warlord who recruited child soldiers as young as nine years old, sacrificing babies to ensure divine protection in battle, and killing thousands. He now works as a preacher, rehabilitates child soldiers, and visits his victims' families to ask forgiveness and offer compensation, all while raising his three adopted children. Due to the lack of a stable legal system in Liberia, Blahyi has never been charged for his crimes. But he claims that he would willingly go to prison and even be executed if that's what it takes to atone for his crimes.

Ric O'Barry, worked as a dolphin trainer for TV for 10 years. Since 1970, however, he has devoted his life to fighting against it-- imprisoning these intelligent creatures and making them perform stunts for human entertainment. So O'Barry quit his job and founded the Dolphin Project, which has rescued and rehabilitated dolphins worldwide. The organization also campaigns against dolphin hunts in countries like Japan and the Solomon Islands.

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The Shawshank Redemption

Goodwill Hunting

It's A Wonderful Life

Man On Fire

The Green Mile

Gran Torino

The Count Of Monte Cristo

Léon: The Professional

Cinderella Man

Les Misérables

Rain Man

The Pursuit of Happyness

The Dark Knight Rises

To Kill A Mockingbird

Invictus

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