TY - BOOK AU - Cohen,Warren I. TI - Profiles in humanity: the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights SN - 074256701X (cloth : alk. paper) PY - 2009/// CY - Lanham, Md. PB - Rowman & Littlefield KW - Civil rights workers KW - Biography KW - History, Modern KW - 20th century KW - Human rights workers KW - Pacifists KW - Political activists KW - Religious leaders N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-249) and index; 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 ER -