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Kim Dae-jung
The Dalai Lama
Mary Daly

Emily Davies
Angela Davis
Emily Wilding Davison

Kim Dae-jung
b. 1-6-1925; South Korea
d. 8-18-2009

Called the Nelson Mandela of Asia, Kim Dae-jung was awarded the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize “for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular”.

Dalai Lama
b. 7-6-1935; Tibet

The Dalai Lama was awarded the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize for “In his struggle for the liberation of Tibet [he] consistently has opposed the use of violence. He has instead advocated peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people.”

“The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your action will be.”

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Mary Daly
b. 10-16-1928; Schenectady, NY

Radical feminist philosopher, theologian, and author of The Church and the Second Sex Mary Daly taught at Boston College for 33 years. She ‘retired’ from the Jesuit-run institution in 1999 after refusing to allow male students in her Women's Studies classroom.

Honoré Daumier
b. 2-26-1808; Marseille, France
d. 2-10-1879; heart failure, blind, & penniless

Honoré Daumier is well remembered for his satirical picture commentary on the political and social conditions in 19th century France where he lampooned “the foibles of the bourgeoisie, the corruption of the law and the incompetence of a blundering government.” He spent six months in prison for his portrayal of the king as Gargantua.

Daumier, though primarily known as a lithographer and caricaturist, was also a sculptor and painted in bold brush stokes that did not find favor in the French Academy or the larger public.

Honoré Daumier quotes ~
• “Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few.”
• “The burdens of a woman are more than the average man could ever endure.”
• “We must be generously willing to leave for a time the narrow boundaries in which our individual lives are passed. ... In this fresh, breezy atmosphere.... we will be surprised to find that many of our familiar old conventional truths look very queer indeed in some of the sudden side lights thrown upon them.”
• “I have my art to comfort me, but what have these wretched men and women to live for?”

Emily Davies
b. 4-22-1830; Southampton, England
d. 7-13-1921

Sarah Emily Davies was a feminist, suffragist and a pioneering campaigner for women's education rights to university access. She led the founding of Girton College in 1869, Britain's first women's college, which later became associated with Cambridge.

Angela Davis
b. 1-26-1944; Birmingham, AL

Political activist, educator and author Angela Davis is associated with the civil rights movement, the Black Panther Party and the Communist Party USA, focusing on the abolition of the prison-industrial complex.

Davis was the head of the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the former director of the university's Feminist Studies department, and currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Syracuse University.

Angela Davis was influenced by Hertbert Marcuse.

Emily Wilding Davison
b. 10-11-1872; Blackheath, London, England
d. 6-8-1913; skull fracture

Emily Davison was an suffragette whose actions inspired the slogan “Deeds not words.” of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). “The Suffragette”, the official organ of the WSPU newspaper and edited by Christabel Pankhurst, announced “Miss Davison, who made a protest at the Derby against the denial of Votes to Women, was knocked down by the King's horse and sustained terrible injuries of which she died on Sunday, June 8th, 1913.”

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Charles G. Dawes
b. 8-27-1865; Marietta, OH
d. 4-23-1951

Vice President of the U.S., Charles G. Dawes (under Coolidge), was Chairman of Allied Reparation Commission (Originator of “Dawes Plan”) for which he was awarded the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize. (Austen Chamberlain shared in 1925 for his role in the Lorcarno Pact.)

Dorothy Day
b. 11-8-1897; Brooklyn NY
d. 11-29-1980; Maryhouse, NYC

Dorothy Day, a journalist, social activist, distributist (third way economic theory), anarchist, and devout Catholic convert. She worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker movement, a nonviolent, pacifist, movement that continues to combine direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf.

She is being considered for sainthood by the Catholic Church.