Profiles in humanity the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights /
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield,
c2009.
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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.