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Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926-2022)
bhikkhu, poet, peace activist, monk, spiritual teacher, religious studies scholar
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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
diplomat, autobiographer, politician, women's rights activist, journalist, peace activist, human rights activist, columnist
E. P. Thompson (1924-1993)
historian of Modern Age, historian, journalist, biographer, labor historian, peace activist, anti-nuclear weapons activist
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
pastor, preacher, civil rights advocate, human rights activist, peace activist, pacifist, politician
Hamid Dabashi (born 1951)
historian, professor, sociologist, literary historian, literary critic, journalist, film critic, peace activist
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
politician, barrister, journalist, philosopher, autobiographer, essayist, newspaper editor, civil rights advocate, memoirist, humanitarian, peace activist, revolutionary, jurist, freedom fighter
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
journalist, philosopher, women's rights activist, autobiographer, social reformer, social critic, suffragette, peace activist, human rights activist, political theorist, sociologist
