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 | |
Since so many of the above links are to Wikipedia.org sites, it seems appropriate to offer this link to Stephen Colbert's Word of the Day. Just scroll down the page until you find Wikiality.
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