1. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929­-1968)
2. Howard Zinn (1921-)
3. Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J. (1921­-)
4. Muriel Rukeyser (1913­-1980)
5. Mulford Sibley (1912­-1989)
6. Hannah Arendt (1907­-1975)
7. George Orwell (1903­-1950)
8. Dorothy Day (1897­-1980)
9. Ammon Hennacy (1893­-1970)
10. Wilfred Owen (1893­-1918)
11. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890­-1964)
12. Randolph Bourne (1886­-1918)
13. Bertrand Russell (1872­-1970)
14. Mohandas Gandhi (1869­-1948)
15. Eugene Victor Debs (1855­-1926)
16. Leo Tolstoy (1828­-1910)
17. Abigail Kelley Foster (1811-1887) and Stephen Symonds Foster (1809-1881)

Michael True is the author and editor of eleven books, essays, reviews, and poems in scholarly and general periodicals, including Commonweal, America, New Republic, The Progressive, Boston Globe, Friends Journal, Harvard Divinity Bulletin. A native of Oklahoma, he is emeritus professor, Assumption College, and former president, International Peace Research Association Foundation. A National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, and twice a Fulbright Scholar in India, Michael True has taught at twenty colleges and universities in this country and abroad, including Duke University (where he completed a doctorate in American literature), Columbia University, University of Hawaii, Nanjing University (China), Utkal University, Bubaheshwar, and University of Rajasthan, Jaipur (India).