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Profiles in Humanity : The Battle for Peace, Freedom, Equality, and Human Rights by Warren I. Cohen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Profiles in Humanity : The Battle for Peace, Freedom, Equality, and Human Rights about?
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, VOclav 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
Who reads Profiles in Humanity : The Battle for Peace, Freedom, Equality, and Human Rights?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Warren I. Cohen
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780742567030
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Political Science, History
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