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Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi
Myanmar politician and opposition leader
Portrait of former U.S. First Lady Rosalynn Carter wearing a blue blazer and patterned scarf, smiling slightly against a dark background.
Rosalynn Carter
American first lady
Nancy Reagan smiling, wearing a red blouse with a bow, in front of a softly focused arched window background.
Nancy Reagan
American first lady
Lin Zexu, statue in Chinatown, New York City.
Lin Zexu
Chinese official
Pat Nixon
Pat Nixon
American first lady
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger
American social reformer
Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug
American scientist
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Maggie Kuhn
American activist
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Mary Hannah Hanchett Hunt
American temperance leader
Marie Stopes
Marie Stopes
British botanist and social worker
Sister Helen Prejean
Sister Helen Prejean
American nun
Carry Nation
Carry Nation
American temperance leader
Anna Adams Gordon.
Anna Adams Gordon
American social reformer
Breckinridge, Madeline McDowell
Madeline McDowell Breckinridge
American social reformer
Stamboliyski
Aleksandŭr Stamboliyski
Bulgarian political leader
Bobby Seale
Bobby Seale
American activist
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Akram al-Hawrani
Syrian politician
Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune
American educator
Walter White, 1942
Walter White
American civil rights activist
Martha McClellan Brown
Martha McClellan Brown
American activist