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Profiles in humanity : the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohen, Warren I.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2009]
Subjects:
Political activists > Biography.
Civil rights workers > Biography.
Human rights workers > Biography.
Pacifists > Biography.
Religious leaders > Biography.
History, Modern > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance
  • Václav Havel and the power of the powerless
  • Aung San Suu Kyi, martyr for democracy
  • Margaret Sanger and the liberation of women
  • Muslim feminists
  • Jack Greenberg and the NAACP-Legal Defense Fund
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for racial equality
  • Donald Woods, Bram Fischer, Helen Suzman and the fight against apartheid
  • Nelson Mandela : grace in victory
  • Holocaust rescuers
  • Pope John XXIII and Catholic humanism
  • Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Sakharov, and human rights in Europe
  • Liu Binyan : the quest for truth and justice in China
  • Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt and the welfare state
  • Muhammad Yunus, microfinance, and an end to poverty.