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Profiles in humanity : the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights / Warren I. Cohen

Author
Cohen, Warren I.
Published
Lanham [Md.] : Rowman & Littlefield, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
xvii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
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.
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ISBN
9780742567016 (cloth : alk. paper)
074256701X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780742567030 (electronic)
0742567036 (electronic)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-249) and index.
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