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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
president of United States
14th Dalai Lama
14th Dalai Lama
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Moon Jae-In
Moon Jae-In
president of South Korea
Viola Desmond
Viola Desmond
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Buffy Sainte-Marie
American singer-songwriter
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James Lawson
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Malcolm X
Malcolm X
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MacLane, Mary
Mary MacLane
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Andrey Sakharov
Soviet physicist and dissident
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Douglas Nicholls
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Thurgood Marshall
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John Lewis
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