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Angela Davis (born 1944)
human rights activist, philosopher, autobiographer, politician, women's rights activist, political prisoner, feminist, professor
- University of California, San Diego, Humboldt University of Berlin
Malcolm X (1925-1965)
politician, autobiographer, political activist, human rights activist, Muslim minister
Henri Alleg (1921-2013)
politician, journalist, human rights activist
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)
suffragette, politician, women's rights activist, human rights activist
- École Normale Supérieure
Shirin Ebadi (born 1947)
judge, human rights activist, peace activist, lawyer, women's rights activist, politician, jurist
- University of Tehran
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
educator, autobiographer, pedagogue, businessperson, politician, human rights activist, teacher
- Hampton University
Khassan Baiev (born 1963)
surgeon, judoka, autobiographer, human rights activist, peace activist, plastic surgeon, battlefield medicine, patron of the arts, sambo fighter, physician
- Krasnoyarsk State Medical University
Park Yeon-mi (born 1993)
human rights activist, journalist
- Dongguk University, Barnard College