Q16611574

Rabindranath Tagore

Music

Bengali Renaissance

1861–1941

"God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land."

Lewis Gompertz

Philosophy

1783–1861

"International Vegetarian Union : Lewis Gompertz"

🇺🇸Jane Addams

Social Activism

socialism

1860–1935

"must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy."

🇺🇸William Lloyd Garrison

Journalism

abolitionism

1805–1879

"The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers."

Isabella Fyvie Mayo

Social Activism

1843–1914

"Isabella Fyvie Mayo, "Edward Garrett" at the On-line Books site"

William Morris

Literature

Socialism

1834–1896

"I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."

🇺🇸Dorothy Day

Politics

anarchism

1897–1980

"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community."

🇺🇸Edwin Markham

Literature

1854–1940

"He drew a circle that shut me out-Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.But love and I had the wit to win:We drew a circle and took him In !From the poem " Outwitted"

Girolamo Savonarola

Religion

Western philosophy

1452–1498

"Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty."

Robert Owen

Philosophy

Socialism

1771–1858

"Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty."