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Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist

John Paul II
264th pope of the Catholic Church

Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister and civil rights leader

Jimmy Carter
American politician, 39th President of the United States

W.E.B. Du Bois
American sociologist, historian, activist and writer

Ion Vinea
Romanian writer

Jesse Jackson
American Baptist minister, activist, civil rights leader, politician, and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition

Malcolm X
American human rights activist

Bryan Adams
Canadian musician

Harvey Milk
American gay rights activist

Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist

John Lewis
American politician and civil rights leader

Norman Finkelstein
American political scientist and author

N. D. Cocea
Romanian journalist and activist

Stokely Carmichael
American activist

Bobby Seale
Co-founder of the Black Panther Party

Jonathan Swift
Irish satirist and essayist

Al Sharpton
American Baptist minister, activist and talk show host

Howard Zinn
American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker

Richard A. Falk
Law professor

Scott Long
American LGBT activist

Marion Barry
American politician and former mayor of Washington, D.C.

Nabeel Rajab
Bahraini human rights activist, Bahraini opposition leader.

Larry Kramer
American screenwriter, novelist, essayist, playwright, LGBT-rights and AIDS activist

Van Jones
American environmental advocate and civil rights activist

Vladimir Bukovsky
Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union

Anton Bacalbașa
Humorist, opinion journalist, politician

Fred Hampton
African-American activist

Tom Lantos
American politician, economist; U.S. Representative from California

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Father of India's Constitution, polymath, revolutionary, social reformer

Harry Schwarz
South African activist

Alasdair Cochrane
British political theorist, ethicist, activist, author

Ilie Moscovici
Italian journalist

Mihail Roller
Communist activist, historian and propagandist

Liu Xiaobo
Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist

Henry Rollins
American singer-songwriter

Paul Bujor
Romanian zoologist, writer and politician

Arnon Nampa
Thai human rights activist, lawyer and political activist

Nikolay Alexeyev
Russian activist and journalist

Wyclef Jean
Haitian rapper