Profiles in humanity : the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights
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Profiles in humanity : the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights
Rowman & Littlefield, c2009
- : cloth
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  Miyagi
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
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  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-249) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This compelling book tells the inspirational stories of men and women who fought for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights throughout the twentieth century. These courageous individuals include leading figures such as Mahatma Gandhi, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel, and Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as Nobel Prize winners Aung San Suu Kyi, Andrei Sakharov, and Muhammad Yunus. Readers will be reminded why Pope John XXIII, long overshadowed by the charismatic John Paul II, was the greatest pope of contemporary times. A new generation will learn that Margaret Sanger was responsible for the single most important advance toward the liberation of women worldwide. They will also come to know some of the valiant women who fought at great personal risk for equal rights in Muslim communities. Cohen highlights the vital roles of Bram Fischer, Helen Suzman, and Donald Woods in fighting apartheid in South Africa and of Jack Greenberg in the struggle against Jim Crow in America. He traces Liu Binyan's efforts to win freedom of the press and to end the abuse of power by the Chinese Communist Party. Finally, he recounts the remarkable stories of some of the thousands of men and women of many nationalities and walks of life who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. Together, these biographies paint an unforgettable portrait of the famous and unsung people who stepped forward with the moral vision to intervene, often at great personal cost, to alleviate human misery.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Nonviolent Resistance
Chapter 1: Mahatma Gandhi and Nonviolent Resistance
Chapter 2: Vaclav Havel and the Power of the Powerless
Chapter 3: Aung San Suu Kyi: Martyr for Democracy
Part II: Women's Rights
Chapter 4: Margaret Sanger and the Liberation of Women
Chapter 5: Muslim Feminists
Part III: Racial Equality
Chapter 6: Jack Greenberg and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Chapter 7: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Chapter 8: Donald Woods, Bram Fischer, Helen Suzman, and the Fight against Apartheid
Chapter 9: Nelson Mandela: Grace in Victory
Part IV: Human Rights
Chapter 10: Holocaust Rescuers
Chapter 11: Pope John XXIII and Catholic Humanism
Chapter 12: Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Sakharov, and Human Rights in Europe
Chapter 13: Liu Binyan: The Quest for Truth and Justice in China
Part V: Freedom from Want
Chapter 14: Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Welfare State
Chapter 15: Mohammad Yunus, Microfinance, and an End to Poverty
Conclusion
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