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Tristan Taormino (born 1971)
actor, film director, sex educator, pornographic actor, film actor, women's rights activist, film producer, podcaster
- Wesleyan University
Murray Rothbard (1926-1995)
economist, philosopher, activist, historian, professor, essayist, economic historian
- Columbia University
Janusz Korczak (1878-1942)
pedagogue, pediatrician, teacher, physician, educator, human rights activist, philosopher, opinion journalist
- University of Warsaw, Imperial University of Warsaw
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
pastor, preacher, civil rights advocate, human rights activist, peace activist, pacifist, politician
- Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary
Douglas James Roche (born 1929)
politician, diplomat, political scientist, peace activist
Robert Jay Lifton (born 1926)
psychiatrist, historian, peace activist
- Cornell University, New York Medical College
Arnold Zweig (1887-1968)
politician, playwright, peace activist
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956)
economist, politician, constitutionalist, barrister, jurist, sociologist, anthropologist, pedagogue, philosopher, social reformer, journalist, revolutionary, professor, political scientist, scholar, orator, freedom fighter, historian, newspaper editor, civil rights advocate, humanitarian, human rights activist, educational theorist, spiritual leader, peace activist, autobiographer, theologian, painter, women's rights activist, bibliographer, essayist, scholar
- Columbia University, London School of Economics and Political Science