Contents:

Maya Angelou: Maya Angelou

Gloria Anzaldua: Gloria Anzaldua

Hannah Arendt: Hannah Arendt

Margaret Atwood: Margaret Atwood

Russell Baker: Russell Baker

James Baldwin: James Baldwin

Dave Barry: Dave Barry

William Bennett: William Bennett

Bruno Bettelheim: Bruno Bettelheim

Judy Brady: Judy Brady

Susan Brownmiller: Susan Brownmiller

Judith Ortiz Cofer: Judith Ortiz Cofer

Joan Didion: Joan Didion

Frederick Douglass: Frederick Douglass

Barbara Ehrenreich: Barbara Ehrenreich

Lars Eighner: Lars Eighner

Benjamin Franklin: Benjamin Franklin

Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Ellen Goodman: Ellen Goodman

Stephen Jay Gould: Stephen Jay Gould

bell hooks: bell hooks

Langston Hughes: Langston Hughes

Zora Neale Hurston: Zora Neale Hurston

Noel Ignatiev: Noel Ignatiev

Jesse Jackson: Jesse Jackson

Thomas Jefferson: Thomas Jefferson

Jamaica Kincaid: Jamaica Kincaid

Martin Luther King Jr. 1: Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. 2: Martin Luther King Jr.

Maxine Hong Kingston: Maxine Hong Kingston

Ed Koch: Ed Koch

Charles Krauthammer: Charles Krauthammer

Ursula Le Guin: Ursula Le Guin

Niccolò Machiavelli: Niccolò Machiavelli

Nancy Mairs: Nancy Mairs

N. Scott Momaday: N. Scott Momaday

Gloria Naylor: Gloria Naylor

George Orwell 1: George Orwell

George Orwell 2: George Orwell

Camille Paglia: Camille Paglia

Plato: Plato

Neil Postman: Neil Postman

Anna Quindlen: Anna Quindlen

James Rachels: James Rachels

Howard Rheingold: Howard Rheingold

Adrienne Rich: Adrienne Rich

Jeremy Rifkin: Jeremy Rifkin

Richard Rodriguez: Richard Rodriguez

Mike Rose: Mike Rose

Scott Russell Sanders: Scott Russell Sanders

Chief Seattle: Chief Seattle

Leslie Marmon Silko: Leslie Marmon Silko

Adam Smith: Adam Smith

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Brent Staples: Brent Staples

Shelby Steele: Shelby Steele

Gloria Steinem: Gloria Steinem

Jonathan Swift: Jonathan Swift

Ronald Takaki: Ronald Takaki

Deborah Tannen: Deborah Tannen

Studs Terkel: Studs Terkel

Lewis Thomas: Lewis Thomas

Henry David Thoreau: Henry David Thoreau

Sallie Tisdale: Sallie Tisdale

Sojourner Truth: Sojourner Truth

James Twitchell: James Twitchell

Alice Walker: Alice Walker

Cornel West: Cornel West

E.B. White: E.B. White

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead: Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

Patricia Williams: Patricia Williams

Terry Tempest Williams: Terry Tempest Williams

Edward O. Wilson: Edward O. Wilson

James Q. Wilson: James Q. Wilson

Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf