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Helen Keller
Helen Keller (1880-1968)

orator, essayist, political activist, trade unionist, peace activist, suffragette, linguist, autobiographer

  • Radcliffe College, Harvard University

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The story of my life
The Story of My Life
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level
We the Resistance
Helen Keller
The Story of My Life
The World I Live in
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Reader's Companion--Copper Level
My Religion
Light in my darkness
The World I Live In (New York Review Books Classics)
The Story of My Life (Enriched Classics)
Rezeption des Völkerrechts
Teacher
The faith of Helen Keller
To Love This Life
Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy
My Key of Life: Optimism
The Story of My Life
Helen Keller
Midstream
Let us have faith
The story of my life, by Helen Keller
The open door
Midstream: my later life
The Story of My Life (Illustrated Classics Collection 2)
The world I live in and Optimism
To love this life
Midstream
The Story of My Life
Optimism
My religion
The Story of My Life
The Story Of My Life And Optimism
The Story of my Life (100th Anniversary Edition)
Helen Keller's Journal
Story of My Life
Friendly Settlements Before the European Court of Human Rights
The Story of My Life
The world I live in
Teacher
The Door Opens and Our Mark Twain
The World I Live In
The story of my life
The Story of My Life (With Her Letters)
Teacher
The Story of My Life
Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy
Taking international law seriously
Out of the dark
An Alabama Christmas
Optimism
The story of my life
The story of my life. With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementrary account of her education. Including passages from the Reports and Letters of her teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan
The Story of My Life
To Love This Life, Quotations by Helen Keller
The Story of My Life
Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy
Helen Keller's journal
How I would help the world
Out of the dark
The Song Of The Stone Wall
Peace at eventide
Story of My Life (Dover Large Print Classics)
The story of my life
My religion
My key of life (optimism)
Story of My Life/C-21/Pocket Classics
Story of My Life
The Story of My Life (Watermill Classic)
Sourde, muette, aveugle
Die Flucht
Seek Happiness
Historia de Mi Vida - Ciega - Sorda - Muda
Out of the dark
The chant of the stone wall
Story of My Life (Now Age Illus Ser 2)
The song of the stone wall
Optimism
Wei da de san da nv xing zi zhuan =
Jia ru gei wo san tian guang ming =
Helen Keller, her Socialist years
The world I live in, Optimism and other essays
The world I live in
El mundo donde vivo
Hailun Kaile zi zhuan =
Helen Keller's journal, 1936-1937
Helen Keller Newspaper Notices - Volume 1
Wo de sheng huo
Ḳorot hayai
המורה אן סוליבן מייסי
Chun feng hua yu - Sha Li Wen lao shi de gu shi
The story of my life =
Our duties to the blind
Die Geschichte meines Lebens
Die Geschichte meines Lebens
Jia ru gei wo san tian guang ming
The story of my life
The Spirit of Easter
Wo di sheng he
We bereaved
Three days to see
The story of my life
Jia ru gei wo san tian guang ming
My religion
Helen Keller in Scotland
My religion
Helen Keller Newspaper Notices - Volume 4
Midstream
Messages to veterans blinded in World War II
My religion
The chant of the stone wall
Iz zhizni sli͡epoĭ i glukhoni͡emoĭ
Byline of hope
The world I live in and Optimism
Being some timely extracts from the reviews of "My religion" by Helen Keller
Hailun Kaile zi zhuan
The modern woman
Wie ich Sozialistin wurde
Jia ru gei wo san tian guang ming =
Hailun Kaile zi zhuan =
The story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan
Wo de xin yang
Helen Keller papers
The world I live in
Our duties to the blind
The miracle of life
The world I live in
Helen Keller Newspaper Notices - Volume 3
The story of my life
The New York that Helen Keller "sees."
Optimism
Helen Keller Newspaper Notices - Volume 2
Ron Kovic
Ron Kovic (born 1946)

autobiographer, peace activist, political activist, veteran

  • Hofstra University

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Born on the Fourth of July
Around the world in eight days
Hurricane street
A Dangerous Country
Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day (1897-1980)

journalist, social activist, editor, trade unionist, peace activist, autobiographer, suffragist

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

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The Long Loneliness
Loaves and Fishes
Watch For The Light
By little and by little
On Pilgrimage
Dorothy Day
From Union Square to Rome
Meditations
The duty of delight
Therese
Meditations
All the way to heaven
Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker
Plough Quarterly No. 12 - Courage
All the Way to Heaven
The duty of delight
Praying in the presence of Our Lord with Dorothy Day
Therese
House of Hospitality
Hold nothing back
Plough Quarterly No. 5
The reckless way of love
Therese
From Union Square to Rome
On Pilgrimage
Thérèse
Reckless Way of Love
Eleventh Virgin
Called to Community
Wisdom from Dorothy Day
Meditations
The Catholic worker
Peter Maurin
Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi (born 1947)

judge, human rights activist, peace activist, lawyer, women's rights activist, politician, jurist

  • University of Tehran

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Iran awakening
Until we are free
White Torture
Refugee Rights In Iran
Ḥuqūq-i pizishkī
Ḥuqūq-i adabī va hunarī
History and documentation of human rights in Iran
Tārīkhchah va asnād-i ḥuqūq-i bashar dar Īrān
Kārgarān-i Khurdsāl
Ḥuqūq-i miʻmārī
iranienne et libre
Iran ontwaakt
Iranienne et libre
La jaula de oro
La jaula de oro
Hasta que seamos libres
Iranienne et libre
Altin Kafes
Bis wir frei sind
Golden Cage
Russell Means
Russell Means (1939-2012)

actor, musician, autobiographer, film actor, politician, voice actor, television actor, peace activist, political activist

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Vera Brittain
Vera Brittain (1893-1970)

nurse, poet, women's rights activist, pacifist, journalist, peace activist, suffragist

  • University of Oxford

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Testament of youth
Testament of friendship
Testament of experience
Chronicle of youth
Letters from a lost generation
The rebel passion
England's hour
Radclyffe Hall
Testament of youth
One Voice
Testament offriendship
Dark Tide
Wartime chronicle
Diary 1939-1945, wartime chronicle
England's Hour
Honourable estate
Chronicle of friendship
Testament of a peace lover
Account rendered
Phoenix: Chronicle of Youth
Good citizenship and the League
Valiant pilgrim
The women at Oxford
Poems of the war and after
Pethick-Lawrence
In the steps of John Bunyan
Honourable Estate
Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby
Born 1925, a novel of youth
Testament of youth
Testament of Youth
Testament Of Youth: Film Tie In (Virago Modern Classics)
Because you died
Humiliation with honor
Verses of a V.A.D
Seed of chaos
On becoming a writer
Honourable estate
Humiliation with honour
War diary 1913-1917
Vera Brittain's Diary 1939-1945
Testament of a generation
Born 1925
Testament of experience
Thrice a stranger
Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth
Radclyffe Hall
Testament of friendship; the story of Winifred Holtby
The story of St. Martin's
Born 1925
Verses of a V. A. D.
Testament of Youth
Pethick-Lawrence
"One of these little ones..."
Born 1925
Envoy extraordinary
Women's work in modern England
On being an author
Oxford poetry
Search after sunrise
Testament of youth
Lady into woman
Diary 1939-1945, wartime chronicle
Envoy extraordinary
Halcyon
Halcyon or the future of monogamy
On becoming a writer
Valient pilgrim
Lady into woman
War-time letters to peace lovers
BORN 1925
Radclyffe Hall
Above all nations
Verses of a V.A.D. and other war poems
The dark tide
The story of St. Martin's (in the fields)
Women's work in modern England
Testament of experience
How shall the Christian Church prepare for new world order?
The rebel passion
Verses of a V.A.D.
Testament of friendship
Zai Ying lun qian xian
Khassan Baiev
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

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Tiziano Terzani
Tiziano Terzani (1938-2004)

journalist, peace activist

  • University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore

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