I am not sure I agree. There are people who want to make positive change towards what they might see is justice in their eyes (isn't it different in many of our eyes, at least until we are educated?), but who don't necessarily want or need to be recognised for it.
Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, and Banksy come to mind, but there are many others. Anonymous donators to causes, they too obviously don't seek recognition. Myself, having what seems to me to be the solution, the only solution to the global energy problem, though my work of 7 years research on it so far has cost me a lot, it does have an outcome, a very good outcome. I think all it needs is for a single influencer to get behind it and push it, to educate all as needed to make the changes needed. But I know I am not that influencer, nor do I want to be, though will do it if that is the way things have to go.
I don't care if I am never recognised for it, all I want is a better world, an actual sustainable, survivable, and prosperous world we could all be proud of, for my daughter, and all the other kids out there.
I think something like this is more or less what we all want, this would be justice we might all agree with, maybe.
To me it's humanity, all of humanity who actually get us anywhere or nowhere, it's not an individual, though there might be some sparks we can all learn from.
Onwards and sidewards, I prefer to say, because when we finally get our way (It's inevitable), it will be the end of all the old power structures, the end of needing human leaders, who almost always screw it all up.