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Activism
18 figures, most prominent first.
Albert Einstein
relativity
1879 – 1955
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist
b. 1928
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court justice
1933 – 2020
Moxie Marlinspike
created the Signal Protocol
b. c. 1980
Emma Goldman
anarchist agitator
1869 – 1940
Elie Wiesel
wrote Night; witness to the Shoah
1928 – 2016
Bea Arthur
American actress and comedienne
1922 – 2009
Richard Stallman
launched GNU and the GPL
b. 1953
Theodor Herzl
imagined a Jewish state
1860 – 1904
Helen Reddy
Australian and American singer and actress
1941 – 2020
Marlee Matlin
American actress
b. 1965
Michael Schwerner
American civil rights activist
1939 – 1964
Andrea Dworkin
American feminist writer
1946 – 2005
Natan Sharansky
Soviet refusenik, nine years imprisoned
b. 1948
Hélène Cixous
French philosopher and writer
b. 1937
Erica Jong
American novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
b. 1942
Abraham Joshua Heschel
theologian; marched at Selma
1907 – 1972
Clara Immerwahr
German chemist
1870 – 1915