Stand Up, Stand Out!

1.GANDHI (leader) - led a non-violent movement for Indian independence 2.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (minister) - led a civil-rights movement 3.NELSON MANDELA (political activist) - campaigned against Apartheid 4.CORAZON AQUINO (revolutionary) - restored democracy to the Philippines 5.MAYA ANGELOU (poet) - campaigned for civil rights and so much more 6.BOUDICCA (queen) - led an uprising against the Roman Empire 7.MARY WOLSTONECRAFT (feminist) - stood up for equal rights for women 8.EDITH CAVELL (nurse) - saved soldiers from both sides in WW1 9.GALILEO GALILEI (physicist) - refused to keep quiet about the universe 10.MUHAMMAD ALI (boxer) - refused to fight in Vietnam 11.ABRAHAM LINCOLN (US president) - said no to slavery 12.IRENA SANDLER (social worker) - smuggled Jewish children to safety 13.YASUTERU YAMADA (volunteer) - helped clean up after Fukushima 14.JULIANE KOEPCHKE (survivor) - she beat a plane crash and the Amazon 15.JK ROWLING (author) - refused to give up after being rejected over and over 16.STEPHEN HAWKING (physicist) - didn't let a serious illness stop him 17.SPARTACUS (slave leader) - fought against the Roman Republic 18.SOPHIE SCHOLL (anti-Nazi activist) - campaigned against the Nazis 19.KATHRINE SWITZER (runner) - first woman to run the Boston Marathon 20.MARSHA P JOHNSON (trans-rights activist) - founding member of Gay Liberation Front 21.PETER NORMAN (athlete) - supported human rights at the 1968 Olympics 22.MARY SEACOLE (nurse) - Crimean hero, voted the greatest black Briton 23.ELIZABETH I (queen) - a successful monarch who was (gasp) a woman too 24.FRANK OCEAN (singer) - bravely came out of the closet 25.DOUGLAS BADER (WW2 flying ace) - carried on fighting after losing his legs