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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
poet, satirist, philosopher, human rights activist, pamphleteer, Anglican priest, essayist, opinion journalist, public figure, priest
- Trinity College Dublin, University of Oxford
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)
translator, autobiographer, human rights activist, journalist, missionary
- Cornell University, Randolph–Macon College
Jimmy Carter (born 1924)
naval officer, diplomat, politician, farmer, autobiographer, submariner, statesperson, environmentalist, businessperson, engineer, peace activist, human rights activist, humanitarian
- Georgia Southwestern State University, Georgia Tech
Susan Sontag (1933-2004)
film director, professor, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, journalist, women's rights activist, film critic, theatrical director, human rights activist, historian, opinion journalist
- University of Paris, Harvard University
Henning Mankell (1948-2015)
playwright, film director, human rights activist
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
pastor, preacher, civil rights advocate, human rights activist, peace activist, pacifist, politician
- Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary
Susan Abulhawa (born 1970)
journalist, human rights activist
- University of South Carolina, Pfeiffer University