(1944 - ) ~ American Novelist, Short Story Writer, Poet, Social Activist, and in 1982, she became the First African-American Woman to Win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : An American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

(1854 - 1912) ~ French Mathematician, Theoretical Physicist, Engineer, Philosopher of Science, Polymath, and Mathematically "The Last Universalist" : A French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "The Last Universalist", since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

(1861 - 1931) ~ Italian Anarchist Active in the Early 19th-Century United States, best Known for his Enthusiastic Advocacy of "propaganda of the Deed" : An Italian anarchist active in the United States from 1901 to 1919. He is best known for his enthusiastic advocacy of "propaganda of the deed", i.e. the use of violence to eliminate those he viewed as tyrants and oppressors and to act as a catalyst to the overthrow of existing government institutions. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

(1801 - 1873) ~ American Attorney who Served as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court from 1868 until his Death in 1873 : An American attorney who served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court from 1868 until his death in 1873. As a youth he was employed as a store clerk in Blandford, Massachusetts when he was given the opportunity at the age of 19 to read law as a clerk in a law office. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

Ancient, Chinese Taoist Poet, Philosopher, and Theorist

"Shooting an Elephant," by George Orwell, 1936.

"What's Happening In America," by Susan Sontag, published in the Partisan Review in 1966. Quoted from The Portable Sixties Reader, edited by Ann Charters, a Penguin Classics.

"Collectives in Spain," by Gaston Leval, published by Freedom Press, 27 Red Lion Street, London, W.C.1, July 1945, and printed by Express Printers, London, Section: Collectives in Spain.

"The Pope's Position on Birth Control," by Margaret Sanger, 27 Jan 1932. Source: The Nation, Jan. 27, 1932 [Vol. 135, No. 3473]: 102-104. , MSMC16:324.

"Stalin: Breaker of Nations," by Robert Conquest, Penguin Books, 1991.