Profiles in humanity : the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights - Cohen, Warren I. (Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 2009)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-249) and index.
Keywords: Political activists -- Biography; Civil rights workers -- Biography; Human rights workers -- Biography; Pacifists -- Biography; Religious leaders -- Biography; History, Modern -- 20th century