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020 _a9780742567016 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _a074256701X (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _a9780742567030 (electronic)
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050 0 0 _aJZ5540
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082 0 0 _a323.092/2
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100 1 _aCohen, Warren I.
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245 1 0 _aProfiles in humanity :
_bthe battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights /
_cWarren I. Cohen.
260 _aLanham, Md. :
_bRowman & Littlefield,
_cc2009.
300 _axvii, 262 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 245-249) and index.
505 0 _aMahatma 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.
650 0 _aPolitical activists
_vBiography.
_933979
650 0 _aCivil rights workers
_vBiography.
_933980
650 0 _aHuman rights workers
_vBiography.
_933981
650 0 _aPacifists
_vBiography.
_933982
650 0 _aReligious leaders
_vBiography.
_933983
650 0 _aHistory, Modern
_y20th century.
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