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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.
| Ella Baker, Activist (1903) |
| Herman Cain, Businessman (1945) |
| Emily Carr, Artist (1871) |
| John Davidson, Celebrity (1941) |
| Tom DeLonge, Musician (1975) |
| Anna Eshoo, Politician (1942) |
| Steve Forbert, Musician (1955) |
| Otylia Jedrzejczak, Athlete (1983) |
| Ferguson Jenkins, Athlete (1943) |
| NeNe Leakes, Actress (1967) |
| Ella Baker, Activist (1986) |
| Eileen Caddy, Celebrity (2006) |
| Lord Edward Cecil, Soldier (1918) |
| Christian Furchtegott Gellert, Poet (1769) |
| Konrad Von Gesner, Scientist (1565) |
| Samuel Johnson, Author (1784) |
| Wassily Kandinsky, Artist (1944) |


