Activists

In school children learn about the great warriors of history. I think we need to study the heroes of peace and social progress. Not all of these individuals were saints, but we can learn something from each.

A-B

Jane Addams	Jessie Daniel Ames	Maya Angelou
Susan B. Anthony	Dennis Banks	Simone de Beauvoir
Bono	John Brown (abolitionist)	Harry Browne
Buddha	Kate Bushnell

C-F

Rachel Carson	César Chávez	Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Noam Chomsky	Robert Coles	Dorothy Day
Catherine Doherty	Frederick Douglass	Marian Wright Edelman
George Fox	Betty Friedan

G-L

Mahatma Gandhi	Jane Goodall
Thich Nhat_Hanh	Julia Butterfly Hill
Jesse Jackson	Jesus
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Naomi Klein	Aung San Suu Kyi
Dalai Lama	Abraham Lincoln	Audre Lorde

M-O

Nelson Mandela	Cotton Mather	Colman McCarthy
Russell Means	Thomas Merton	Patsy Mink
John Muir	Edgar Murphy	Ralph Nader

P-S

Thomas Paine	Rosa Parks	Lucy Parsons
Sophia Lvovna Perovskaya	Frances Fox Piven
Ayn Rand	Eleanor Roosevelt
Albert Schweitzer	Amartya Sen	Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Gloria Steinem

T-Z

Ronald Takaki	Mother Teresa	Henry David Thoreau
Leo Tolstoy	Sojourner Truth	Rigoberta Menchú Tum
Desmond Tutu
Lech Walesa	Elie Wiesel
Malcolm X	Howard Zinn