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Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil rights leader & minister
Malcolm X
Civil rights activist & minister
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Rosa Parks
Civil rights activist
Nat Turner
Enslaved rebellion leader
Emiliano Zapata
Revolutionary & guerrilla leader
Michael Collins
Revolutionary & statesman
Túpac Amaru II
Indigenous rebellion leader
Aung San
Independence activist & revolutionary
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Patrice Lumumba
Independence leader
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Priest & independence leader
José de San Martín
General & independence leader
Bernardo O'Higgins
Military officer & statesman
Samora Machel
President of Mozambique
Desmond Tutu
Anglican Archbishop and anti-apartheid activist
Steve Biko
Anti-apartheid activist
Hōne Heke
Māori chief
Eddie Mabo
Land rights activist
Yasser Arafat
Chairman of the PLO
Crazy Horse
Lakota war leader
Tecumseh
Shawnee military leader
Geronimo
Apache leader
Yaa Asantewaa
Ashanti queen mother and military leader
Rani Lakshmibai
Queen of Jhansi
Albert Luthuli
Anti-apartheid activist
Robert Sobukwe
Anti-apartheid revolutionary
José Martí
Writer and independence leader
Antonio Maceo
Independence general
Augusto César Sandino
Revolutionary leader
Andranik
Military commander
Vasil Levski
Revolutionary
Skanderbeg
Military leader
Mustafa Barzani
Kurdish nationalist leader
Whina Cooper
Māori rights leader
Emilio Aguinaldo
First President of the Philippines
Andrés Bonifacio
Revolutionary leader
Sophie Scholl
Anti-Nazi student activist
Amilcar Cabral
Anti-colonial leader & agricultural engineer
Jon Sigurdsson
Leader of the Icelandic independence movement
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