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Jesse Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. was an American civil rights activist, LGBTQ rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister. A protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. and James Bevel during the civil rights movement, he became one of the most prominent civil rights leaders of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and an ardent advocate and early supporter of LGBTQ rights in the United States. From 1991 to 1997, he served as a shadow United States senator for the District of Columbia.
Leyla Zana
Turkish statesperson (born 1961)

Enes Kanter Freedom
Turkish-American basketball player (born 1992)
Tatjana Ždanoka
Latvian mathematician and politician (born 1950)
Federal Union of European Nationalities
organization
Manzoor Pashteen
Human rights activist

Paul Schiemann
Baltic German journalist (1876-1944)
Dyab Abou Jahjah
Islamic and anti-Israeli activist, Hezbollah member
T. Maheswaran
Sri Lankan politician (1966-2008)
Sotiris Bletsas
Greek activist
Romana Bashir
Pakistani activist
Marcel van Dam
Dutch politician, columnist and television presenter
Rubina Feroze Bhatti
Pakistani human rights and peace activist
Boriss Cilevičs
Latvian politician (born 1956)
Mohamed Rabbae
Member of Netherlands' Parliament (1941–2022)
Marc Morial
American politician
Rajani Thiranagama
human rights activist (1954–1989)
Nadarajah Raviraj
assassinated Sri Lankan politician
Kyaw Hla Aung
Burmese lawyer and Rohingya rights activist
Nichita Smochină
Romanian activist
Hasan Saltık
Turkish record producer (1964–2021)
Amberin Zaman
Turkish journalist (born 2000)
Vladimirs Buzajevs
Latvian politician, human rights activist
Edgardo Ortuño
Uruguayan professor and politician