Category Archives : 1000.United States of America


Medea Benjamin (United States of America)

“We who oppose war, and who now represent the majority of Americans, must force our representatives to represent us.” ————————————— Update: Up to 2009, Benjamin engaged in numerous protests involving U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; U.S. President George W. Bush; U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, among others. […]

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Jane Roberts and Lois Abraham (United States of America)

Jane Roberts and Lois Abraham (United States of America)

“Lois and Jane demonstrated that citizens in the US understand that family planning, safe motherhood, and HIV/AIDS prevention are essential.” Thoraya Obaid 34 Million Friends of UNFPA got its start in July 2002 with the coincidental, almost simultaneous, inspiration of two women, Jane Roberts and Lois Abraham. Both were outraged by the US decision to […]


Mandy Carter (United States of America)

“We get so wrapped up in ‘just us’. The question of the day–this to me is the question of the future–are we about justice or ‘just us?’” Mandy Carter has formed connections among a range of issues: opposition to war and violence, support for social and economic justice for people of color, and equal rights […]

Mandy Carter (United States of America)

Noeleen Heyzer (United States of America)

Noeleen Heyzer (United States of America)

“A world without war is too important to be the responsibility of any single government, no matter how powerful. Our challenge is to find one shared humanity in the face of our diversity.” As the executive director of the UN’s leading agency to promote women’s empowerment and gender equality, Noeleen Heyzer has made a difference […]


Andrea Smith (United States of America)

“It is futile to try to combat interpersonal violence without addressing the fact that we live in a world structured by violence.” Andrea Smith combines intellectual study, professional skill, and personal passion to shed light on violence against women of color in the USA. The violence comes from many corners of society, including family members, […]

Andrea Smith (United States of America)

Kip Tiernan (United States of America)

“If we care enough to take the risk of being human, together we can change the world.” At a time when society believed that women’s place was in the home, Kip Tiernan reached out to those women who had no home. In 1974, she founded Rosie’s Place, the United States’ first drop-in, emergency shelter for […]


Terry Greenblatt (United States of America)

“Borders are no obstacle for women. Led by our feelings and instincts, women will cross them. Even when we are women whose very existence contradicts each other, we will talk; we will not shoot.” Terry Greenblatt, formerly director of Bat Shalom, Israel’s national women’s peace organization, and activist in residence at the Global Fund for […]


Ellen Barry (United States of America)

Ellen Barry (United States of America)

“I believe that many people are starting to realize that we’ve made some deep, deep mistakes by building prisons to the detriment and exclusion of building up our educational systems.” Ellen Barry is a prison rights activist, lawyer, and organizer who speaks out about the crucial issues facing women in US jails and prisons. Ellen […]


Cynthia McKinney (United States of America)

“We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.” Cynthia McKinney is an outspoken leader for peace, human rights, and justice. As a result of questioning her congressional colleagues about […]

Cynthia McKinney (United States of America)

Candi Smucker (United States of America)

Candi Smucker (United States of America)

“Fair trade plays by a different set of rules than normal commerce. Instead of exchanging goods or services based on clout and driving hard bargains, it is based on economic and social justice.” Candi Smucker believes the workers of the world deserve to earn a sustaining wage. And she knows that there are many shoppers […]