I could use some advice about my essay. (politics and stuff)

I could use some advice about my essay.

So my teacher gave us an assignment to write about someone who devoted their life or spent a portion of their life doing selfless deeds and like helping people. I asked if we have to write about someone who we know personally and he said we can write about Gandhi, or Martin Luther King or Mother Teresa if we want. (Do they not have controversies of their own?)

The only requirement is that we must write a minimum of only 8 sentences. And I am struggling to choose a person to write about.

In the past 2-3 months i randomly just really got into politics and also history. There is probably a mix of reasons why that happened. (Elections in the US and Germany, in school we are currently learning about WWII and idk just seeing news about innocent people getting murdered angers me. Also I have been interested in social justice.)

Anyway the story of Ernesto Che Guevara and the story of Thomas Sankara really caught my attention.

So I decided I would just start reading about what happened first. So now I am currently reading about Che.

But you know i am still reading, learning and developing my worldview and stuff, so idk how smart it would be to write an essay about Che who was a Marxist-Leninist. My teacher, despite not being supposed to share his political views does so anyway ( Like hating Donald "Dump" as he calls him, which I see why he would do that. However his passionate yapping and disrupting the class at the mention of politics makes me want to reconsider my choice. ). 

I would not like to end up accidentally glorifying Che and then have him stop the whole lesson to passionately scream about how he was not a democrat, racist and homophobic and raped dolphins or something. Or have the whole class think I love dictatorships and stuff. 

Hot take I love democracy but hate capitalism, but I feel like people often think you can not have democracy without capitalism, which I do not agree with.

So Thomas Sankara would probably be a better choice. I think. He is less of a symbol or however you would prefer to describe the impact Che made. He is less controversial I think. Along with the direct democracy of Burkina Faso at the time, I think it would be harder for my teacher and classmates to assume wrong things about me just based on the choice of whom I am writing about for my essay. But I know less about him and I have not even began to read about him, as I am still reading the biography John Lee Anderson wrote about Che's life.

The thought of not writing about Che really bothers me. 

I am still learning new things about him everyday, things he is praised for doing or horrible things he "did" (did he really?). But I would say he motivates me to be a better, more kind, more loving person. To actually do something to help those who are struggling, despite me not having to overthrow a far-right dictatorship to achieve that. 

His whole motorcycle journey, seeing people who are struggling in poverty.

Him fighting not for a land or a place he was born in, but for the people (in Cuba, Congo, Bolivia) who suffered because of imperialism and capitalism.

I do not want to not write about him just because I disagree with his violent approach. I mean disagreement is an over exaggeration. How else would they overthrow a far-right dictatorship?

I might as well just find a completely different person to talk about altogether.

I will end this with a quote I recently found.

"Socialism without democracy is just tyranny by another name and democracy without socialism is just kind of sham, hollow liberation for a tiny privileged minority."

- Eleanor Penny