The following people had the courage to do what they thought was right even in difficult circumstances.

Jane Addams
Muhammad Ali
Ruth Aliav
Susan B. Anthony
Leo Baeck
Clara Barton
Ruby Bridges
Chris Burke
Rachel Carson
Cesar Chavez
Crazy Horse
Dalai Lama XIV
Dorothea Dix
Frederick Douglass
Jaime Escalante
Galileo Galilei
Mahatma Gandhi
Geronimo
Lewis Hine
Joan of Arc
Mother Jones
Chief Joseph
Helen Keller
Florence Kelley
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Janusz Korczak
Dorothea Lange
Abraham Lincoln
Martin Luther
Nelson Mandela
Iqbal Masih
John Muir
Ralph Nader
Florence Nightingale
Irene Opdyke
Rosa Parks
Jaap Penraat
Pee Wee Reese
Jackie Robinson
Luis Rodriguez
Oskar Schindler
Sophie Scholl
Albert Schweitzer
Hannah Senesh
Sitting Bull
Socrates
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Gloria Steinem
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Chiune Sugihara
Tecumseh
Mother Teresa
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Desmond Tutu
Raoul Wallenberg
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Phillis Wheatley
Ryan White
Malcolm X
 

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