You know Gandhi: the guy who led the movement for Indian independence from British rule in the early 20th century. Wait, what? You know him for something else? Oh yeah, that's because he also advoc...

As a Baptist preacher, Dr. King naturally thought the Bible had a few important things to say. And like a lot of Christians, he found wisdom in both the New and Old Testaments. But it's clear he co...

Writer, thinker, transcendentalist, and neckbeard enthusiast, Henry David Thoreau published his essay, "Civil Disobedience" in 1849. It basically argued that governments do messed up stuff way too...

Malcolm X gets compared (and contrasted) to Dr. King quite a bit.He didn't write much, and instead came to notoriety through television interviews and speeches. Early in his public life, he was an...

Technically, this bunch was a group of "thinkers," though it's hard to compare their thought process to anyone in the Civil Rights Movement. It's a standing question how people can be so viciously...