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Afghanistan
Malalai Joya
Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī
1838–1897
Meena Keshwar Kamal
1956–1987
Zallascht Sadat
Ramazan Bashardost
Farkhunda Zahra Naderi
American
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929–1968
Rosa Parks
1913–2005
Harriet Tubman
1822–1913
Angela Davis
Ruby Bridges
Gloria Steinem
Joan Baez
Ralph Nader
James Baldwin
1924–1987
Audre Lorde
1934–1992
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Laurie David
Alicia Silverstone
Lucretia Mott
1793–1880
Woody Harrelson
Doris Day
Temple Grandin
Carrie Chapman Catt
1859–1947
Bayard Rustin
1912–1987
Pamela Anderson
Katherine Dunham
1909–2006
Pete Seeger
1919–2014
Dolores Huerta
Lady Gaga
Frances Perkins
1880–1965
Nina Simone
1933–2003
Jane Fonda
Harry Hay
1912–2002
Pamelyn Ferdin
Elizabeth Taylor
1932–2011
Fred Hampton
1948–1969
Jesse Williams
Madam C. J. Walker
1867–1919
Robert Redford
Nanette Fabray
1920–2018
Marian Wright Edelman
Sylvia Rivera
1951–2002
Al Sharpton
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Norman Thomas
1884–1968
June Jordan
1936–2002
Winona LaDuke
Bill Cosby
Laverne Cox
Phyllis Schlafly
1924–2016
Michael Berg
Tupac Shakur
1971–1996
Sheryl Sandberg
Bree Newsome
Dan Savage
Marc Lamont Hill
Argentina
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
1811–1888
Estela de Carlotto
Hebe de Bonafini
Cecilia Grierson
1859–1934
Diana Sacayán
1975–2015
Luis D'Elía
Victor Heredia
Carlos Mugica
1930–1974
Rodolfo González Pacheco
1882–1949
Juana Paula Manso
1819–1875
Australia
Eddie Mabo
1936–1992
Gina Wilson
Christine Caine
Rosie Batty
Burnum Burnum
1936–1997
Deborra-lee Furness
Rebecca St. James
Mick Gooda
Xavier Rudd
Carl Katter
Jim Green
Jon Stanhope
Rose Scott
1847–1925
Bangladesh
Mujibur Rahman Devdas
Sharifa Khatun
Abdullah Abu Sayeed
Nazia Khanum
Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin
Black
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929–1968
Rosa Parks
1913–2005
Angela Davis
Harriet Tubman
1822–1913
Nina Simone
1933–2003
James Baldwin
1924–1987
Jesse Williams
Madam C. J. Walker
1867–1919
Bayard Rustin
1912–1987
Bill Cosby
Bree Newsome
Ruby Dee
1922–2014
Audre Lorde
1934–1992
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Fred Hampton
1948–1969
Marian Wright Edelman
Danny Glover
Alicia Garza
Patrisse Cullors
Katherine Dunham
1909–2006
Alicia Keys
Mos Def
June Jordan
1936–2002
Laverne Cox
Al Sharpton
DeRay Mckesson
Lucy Parsons
1853–1942
Stevie Wonder
Marc Lamont Hill
Michaela Angela Davis
Roy Wilkins
1901–1981
Erica Garner
1990–2017
Ruth Ellis
1899–2000
Andrew Young
Ralph Abernathy
1926–1990
Marissa Johnson
Balozi Harvey
1940–2016
Mariah Lopez
Bertha Gilkey
1949–2014
Mildred Fay Jefferson
1926–2010
Edythe Scott Bagley
1924–2011
Louise Meriwether
Ossie Davis
1917–2005
Tupac Shakur
1971–1996
Cornel West
Bob Moses
Nikki Giovanni
Bobby Seale
Richard Allen
1760–1831
Martin Luther King Sr.
1899–1984
Willa Brown
1906–1992
Brazil
Dorothy Stang
1931–2005
Iara Lee
Zózimo Bulbul
1937–2013
José do Patrocínio
1854–1905
Tico Santa Cruz
Anilda Leão
1923–2012
Leonardo Sakamoto
João Pedro Stedile
Herbert de Souza
1935–1997
Canada
Margaret Atwood
Emily Murphy
1868–1933
Pamela Anderson
Neil Young
Ryan Gosling
Michael J. Fox
Louise McKinney
1868–1931
Tommy Chong
Henrietta Edwards
1849–1931
Craig Kielburger
Mary Ann Shadd
1823–1893
Marc Emery
Naomi Klein
Cindy Blackstock
Jack Layton
1950–2011
Maggie Helwig
Trisha Baptie
Tímea Nagy
Brent Hawkes
Sean Avery
Sarah Harmer
Lisa Ray
Mia Kirshner
Ralph Nader
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Alaa Murabit
Yasmin Warsame
Michele Landsberg
Jessica Steen
Margaret Trudeau
Francis Pegahmagabow
1889–1952
Ezra Levant
Paul Watson
Blanche Brillon Macdonald
1931–1985
Shirley Douglas
Matthew Coon Come
Jodie Joanna Giesz-Ramsay
Roy Dupuis
Stéphanie Lapointe
Denise Ho
Constance Hamilton
1862–1945
David Usher
Roberta Jamieson
China
Jennifer Zeng
Li Yinhe
Ren Naying
Martin Lee
Baggio Leung
Woeser
Lester Shum
Eddie Chu
Edward Leung
Egypt
Huda Sha'arawi
1879–1947
Ahmed Douma
Ahmed Seada
Yara Sallam
Yusuf Idris
1927–1991
Abdul Rahman Yusuf
Mervat Tallawy
Shaima al-Sabbagh
1984–2015
Nahid Toubia
Abbud al-Zumar
Abdel-Halim Qandil
France
Brigitte Bardot
Marion Cotillard
Jean-Marie Le Pen
José Bové
Charles Aznavour
Flora Tristan
1803–1844
Lionel Jospin
Dieudonné M'bala M'bala
Lilian Thuram
Henry Dunant
1828–1910
Marjane Satrapi
Marek Halter
Clémentine Autain
Rokhaya Diallo
David Rachline
Germany
Joachim Gauck
Nina Hagen
Rüdiger Nehberg
Rosa von Praunheim
Peace Pilgrim
1908–1981
Horst Wessel
1907–1930
Günther Anders
1902–1992
May Ayim
1960–1996
Alexander Parvus
1867–1924
Victor Serge
1890–1947
Gad Beck
1923–2012
India
Mahatma Gandhi
1869–1948
Kailash Satyarthi
Arvind Kejriwal
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
1856–1920
Manasi Pradhan
Lal Bahadur Shastri
1904–1966
Irom Chanu Sharmila
L. K. Advani
Pramila Nesargi
Amala Akkineni
Govind Ballabh Pant
1887–1961
Mamatha Raghuveer Achanta
Savitribai Phule
1831–1897
Chandra Shekhar Azad
1906–1931
Morarji Desai
1896–1995
Binayak Sen
Syama Prasad Mukherjee
1901–1953
G. Kumara Pillai
1923–2000
Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
1887–1971
Bal Thackeray
1926–2012
Mohammad Ali Jouhar
1878–1931
Shantha Sinha
Satinath Sarangi
Sunita Narain
Idrees Ul Haq
Subramania Bharati
1882–1921
Satyapal Dang
1920–2013
Satish Chandra Kakati
1912–2006
Vidyaben Shah
Aruna Asaf Ali
1909–1996
Vijaya Lakshmi Emani
1957–2009
Saumen Guha
Rajinder Johar
Birsa Munda
1875–1900
Begum Zafar Ali
1900–1999
Shehla Rashid Shora
Punam Devi
V. Mohini Giri
Narendra Dabholkar
1945–2013
Pherozeshah Mehta
1845–1915
Avinash Dharmadhikari
Pandurang Shastri Athavale
1920–2003
K. B. Hedgewar
1889–1940
Madhu Mangesh Karnik
Nanaji Deshmukh
1916–2010
Asra Nomani
Shayama Chona
Hanumappa Sudarshan
Silverine Swer
1910–2014
Lambert Mascarenhas
Indonesia
Munir Said Thalib
1965–2004
Ki Hajar Dewantara
1889–1959
Soe Hok Gie
1942–1969
Christine Hakim
Tan Malaka
1897–1949
Willibrordus S. Rendra
1935–2009
Adnan Buyung Nasution
1934–2015
Iran
Abolhassan Banisadr
Fatemeh Haghighatjoo
Bahar Soomekh
Mehran Karimi Nasseri
Mahmoud Taleghani
1911–1979
Navvab Safavi
1924–1956
Marjane Satrapi
Simin Behbahani
1927–2014
Shiva Rose
Ehsan Fatahian
1982–2009
Ali Afshari
Minoo Khaleghi
Ghazal Omid
Zahra Merrikhi
Fatemeh Karroubi
Sohrab Aarabi
1990–2009
Ireland
Bono
Pierce Brosnan
The Edge
Aidan McGrath
Ali Hewson
Brendan Clifford
Christina Noble
Joanne O'Riordan
Séanna Breathnach
Peter McVerry
Martin Sheen
Israel
Yigal Amir
Benzion Netanyahu
1910–2012
Norman Finkelstein
Meital Dohan
Yosef Abramowitz
Itzik Shmuli
Etai Pinkas
Michael Lucas
Italy
Giuseppe Mazzini
1805–1872
Luca Casarini
Chiara Lubich
1920–2008
Carlo Levi
1902–1975
Carlo Rosselli
1899–1937
Piero Calamandrei
1889–1956
Rita Borsellino
Fabrizio De André
1940–1999
Roberto Fico
Alessandra Moretti
Lebanon
Amal Clooney
Brigitte Gabriel
Souha Bechara
Myriam Klink
Ghassan bin Jiddo
Rose Nader
1906–2006
Mexico
Julieta Venegas
Alurista
Jessie Lopez De La Cruz
1919–2013
Lila Downs
Ofelia Medina
Lynda Thomas
Nepal
Anuradha Koirala
Angur Baba Joshi
Durga Ghimire
Princess Jayanti of Nepal
1946–2001
Sunita Danuwar
Jagadish Ghimire
1946–2013
Malvika Subba
Netherlands
Doutzen Kroes
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dries van Agt
Tjalie Robinson
1911–1974
Herman van Veen
Harry van den Bergh
Bram van Ojik
Henk Krol
Dion Graus
Jan Marijnissen
Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau
Ruud Lubbers
1939–2018
Thierry Baudet
Koos Zwart
1947–2014
Pim de Kuijer
1981–2014
New Zealand
Lucy Lawless
Kate Sheppard
1847–1934
Catherine Healy
Sue Kedgley
Mani Mitchell
Elsie Locke
1912–2001
Tama Poata
1936–2005
Annabella Mary Geddes
1864–1955
Nigeria
Ayodele Awojobi
1937–1984
Nnamdi Kanu
Maryam Babangida
1948–2009
Wole Olanipekun
Olufunke Baruwa
Pakistan
Malala Yousafzai
Jibran Nasir
Aitzaz Ahsan
Salman Ahmad
Qandeel Baloch
1990–2016
Ali Gohar
Mian Iftikharuddin
1907–1962
Khawaja Saad Rafique
Faiza Khan
Samar Minallah
Begum Jan
Hemu Kalani
1923–1943
Philippines
Corazon Aquino
1933–2009
Risa Hontiveros
Jim Paredes
Etta Rosales
Jose Antonio Vargas
E. San Juan Jr.
Melchora Aquino
1812–1919
Melba Padilla Maggay
Naderev Sano
Poland
Waldemar Pawlak
Edward Gierek
1913–2001
Piotr Duda
Władysław Frasyniuk
Leon Pinsker
1821–1891
Barbara Nowacka
Tomasz Terlikowski
Mateusz Kijowski
Ryszard Czarnecki
Puerto Rico
Caridad De la Luz
Willie Colón
Nancy Mercado
Joaquin Phoenix
Ana Irma Rivera Lassén
Julio Vizcarrondo
1829–1889
Romania
Mihail Sadoveanu
1880–1961
Haig Acterian
1904–1943
Olga Bancic
1912–1944
Alexandru Jar
1911–1988
Remus Cernea
Marian Munteanu
Russia
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1918–2008
Alexei Navalny
Nikolay Alexeyev
Victor Serge
1890–1947
Masha Gessen
Maxim Martsinkevich
Elizaveta Glinka
1962–2016
Alexander Parvus
1867–1924
Dmitriy Tsorionov
Sergey Nechayev
1847–1882
Ildar Dadin
Yunna Morits
Alexander Dvorkin
Valery Fadeyev
Anton Krasovsky
Darya Polyudova
Artyom Loskutov
Saudi Arabia
Manal al-Sharif
Raif Badawi
Nimr al-Nimr
1959–2016
Suad Al-Shammari
Juhayman al-Otaybi
1936–1980
Somalia
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Yasmin Warsame
Hodan Nalayeh
Musse Olol
Shadya Yasin
Ifrah Ahmed
Yasin Osman Kenadid
1919–1988
Hawa Abdi
South Africa
Nelson Mandela
1918–2013
Steve Biko
1946–1977
Miriam Makeba
1932–2008
Winnie Mandela
Cyril Ramaphosa
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
Walter Sisulu
1912–2003
Govan Mbeki
1910–2001
Helen Joseph
1905–1992
John Tengo Jabavu
1859–1921
Jani Allan
Barry Duke
Sally Gross
1953–2014
Moses Kotane
1905–1978
Frances Baard
1909–1997
Edwin Cameron
Cecilia Makiwane
1880–1919
Diana E. H. Russell
Abram Onkgopotse Tiro
1947–1974
Zanele Muholi
Leon Louw
Solly Sachs
1900–1976
South Korea
Lee Hyori
Moon Ik-hwan
1918–1994
Park Yeon-mi
Han Bi-ya
Baek Nam-gi
1947–2016
Yun Bong-gil
1908–1932
Lee Sang-don
Ahn Changho
1878–1938
Kim Du-han
1918–1972
Lee Hyeon-seo
Sri Lanka
Mary Bastian
1948–1985
Jeyakumari Balendran
M.I.A.
Arul Pragasam
Rosy Senanayake
Syria
Muzoon Almellehan
Kamal al-Labwani
Omar Amiralay
1944–2011
Bassel Shehadeh
1984–2012
Mashaal Tammo
1958–2011
Asma al-Assad
Turkey
Mustafa Olpak
1953–2016
Furkan Doğan
1991–2010
Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
1904–1983
İbrahim Bilgen
1949–2010
Arzu Toker
Kâzım Koyuncu
1971–2005
Garo Paylan
Burak Arıkan
Tahir Elçi
1966–2015
Şirin Tekeli
1944–2017
Ertuğrul Kürkçü
Ethem Sarısülük
1986–2013
Osman Öcalan
Hakî Karer
1950–1977
Hüseyin Velioğlu
1952–2000
Ukraine
Ruslana
Tetiana Chornovol
Anna Hutsol
Oksana Shachko
Dmytro Bulatov
Andrei Purgin
George Tuka
Serhiy Leshchenko
Mykola Mikhnovsky
1873–1924
Oleh Olzhych
1907–1944
Oleh Babaiev
1965–2014
United Kingdom
Paul McCartney
Emma Thompson
John Lennon
1940–1980
Michael Sheen
Elizabeth Taylor
1932–2011
Joanna Lumley
Amal Clooney
Diana, Princess of Wales
1961–1997
Heather Mills
Stephen Fry
M.I.A.
Thom Yorke
Jennie McAlpine
Dora Russell
1894–1986
Tony Juniper
Ronnie Lee
Donald Watson
1910–2005
Dan Lyons
Billy Bragg
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792–1822
Leona Lewis
Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin
Sarah Graham
David Walliams
Edward Carpenter
1844–1929
Ben Fogle
Gerrard Winstanley
1609–1676
Ted Grant
1913–2006
Beatrice Webb
1858–1943
Katie Piper
William Lovett
1800–1877
Marion Wallace Dunlop
1864–1942
David Bale
1941–2003
Mark Thomas
Russell Brand
Martin Smith
Sting
Brendan Cox
Robert Webb
United States
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929–1968
Rosa Parks
1913–2005
Harriet Tubman
1822–1913
Angela Davis
Gloria Steinem
Ralph Nader
James Baldwin
1924–1987
Ruby Bridges
Audre Lorde
1934–1992
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Laurie David
Frances Perkins
1880–1965
Harry Hay
1912–2002
Pamela Anderson
Woody Harrelson
Doris Day
Temple Grandin
Alicia Silverstone
Bayard Rustin
1912–1987
Lucretia Mott
1793–1880
Joan Baez
Pete Seeger
1919–2014
Norman Thomas
1884–1968
Lady Gaga
Dolores Huerta
Carrie Chapman Catt
1859–1947
Sylvia Rivera
1951–2002
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Tupac Shakur
1971–1996
Fred Hampton
1948–1969
Laverne Cox
Marian Wright Edelman
Phyllis Schlafly
1924–2016
Nina Simone
1933–2003
Al Sharpton
Roy Wilkins
1901–1981
Jack Nichols
1938–2005
Nanette Fabray
1920–2018
Carrie Nation
1846–1911
Jane Fonda
Henry Browne Blackwell
1825–1909
Bob Moses
Ramsey Clark
Jacqueline Ceballos
Chaz Bono
Dan Savage
Andrew Young
Martin Luther King Sr.
1899–1984
Roy Innis
1934–2017
Ralph Abernathy
1926–1990
Nahshon Dion Anderson