These people are lifted up for YOUR consideration, as you feel the inner need to Learn How to Become Better as a person in your family, society, and nation. We welcome your suggestions for very special people to consider adding at info [at] leadershipethicsonline [dot] com. The General Criteria for Inclusion are:
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- Courage and Adamant Persistence despite opposition, enemies, and adverse forces or life events
- Personal Risks, dangers, and threats to life ignored to fulfill their accomplishments
- Truthfulness, interest in learning truth for the sake of innocent people harms
- Common Good focus, or for a particular People Group
- Inspiration for moral and ethical development arise from study of biography
- Recognition by large numbers due to achievements and life work
- Public Collections and Access to writings, letters, in archives for public research and education
The alphabetical listing here is an ongoing, growing list of Special People Around the World who loved other human beings more than self-interest (a demonic plague upon today’s world). Many of these people are unknown, forgotten, or not of interest to many people tied into their second-by-second technological devices.
The list is quite partial and selective. We have just begun this list, as of June 2021, although we have had this “in the back of our mind” for some time. Since we have been researching historical sources for more than four decades, expect the list to grow by leaps and bounds.
We welcome names for consideration, compelling reasons for consideration, principal authoritative online URLs, all which we will research prior to a decision. You will be informed of the decision, and why. We want all persons visiting this site to benefit from resources they may use for personal moral and ethical growth, intellectual learning, teaching others constructive moral content, and especially, for practice and fruitfulness in loving all persons and all beings in God’s Biosphere.
Growing List of Golden Rule People
Assange, Julian
For the sake of the Common Good, publisher of unedited, uninterpreted, purely factual documents submitted to his organization, https://wikileaks.org, by morally and legally aggrieved persons within governments and corporations who share said documents because they show illegal, immoral, and criminal actions and intents, and reveal subterfuges, malice, lies, and crimes (never prosecuted) by persons holding legal authority, with said documents revealing internal purposes and plans, vis à vis public propaganda-manipulation
https://wikileaks.org/
Curie, Marie Sklodowska
Marie Curie Museum in Warsaw, Poland
http://www.mmsc.waw.pl/
Curie Institute in Paris, France
https://institut-curie.org/
Daly, Clare
Irish Leader, Cannot Be Bought Moral Voice, Advocate for Innocent Harmed, Opponent of Lies, Murder, Profiteering
MEP, Member European Parliament, Ireland, Dublin Constituency (2019-)
Member, Independents for Change (Neamhspleáigh ar son an Athraithe)
Member, The Left in the European Parliament (Gauche unitaire européenne/Gauche verte nordique)
https://claredaly.ie/
Donnelley, Strachan
Founder of The Center for Humans and Nature
https://www.humansandnature.org/
Douglass, Frederick
The Frederick Douglass Papers, Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/collections/frederick-douglass-papers/about-this-collection/
Edmonds, Sibel
Whistleblower Persecuted, and Founder of Whistleblowers.org
https://www.whistleblowers.org/
Frankl, Viktor Emil
Viktor Frankl Institut, Vienna, Austria
https://www.viktorfrankl.org/
Gage, Richard
Founder, Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth
http://www1.ae911truth.org
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Intelligent, bold, courageous, righteous Black woman who lived for justice for poor, Black, disenfranchised American citizens
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/fannie-lou-hamer
Harrison, Scott
Founder of Charity: Water
https://www.charitywater.org/about
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
The King Papers
Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute
Stanford University
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/search
Lay, Benjamin
Benjamin Lay (Quaker opponent of slavery)
https://dp.la/item/ff3270d9ce1187272e2f49e7dd26d88b
Maathai, Wangari
Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies
https://wmi.uonbi.ac.ke/
Mandela, Nelson
Nelson Mandela Foundation Archives
https://archive.nelsonmandela.org/
McGovern, Raymond
Vilified for telling the truth in every area, 27-year veteran with CIA, U.S. Army officer
https://raymcgovern.com/
Mujica Cordano, José Alberto
“The Poorest President” – Uruguay
https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nb2001008851/
Pankhurst, Emmeline
Book, “My Own Story” (Eveleigh Nash: London, 1914)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112007064915&view=1up&seq=13
Rogers, Fred
The Fred Rogers Center
https://www.fredrogerscenter.org/about-the-center/our-mission
Salk, Jonas
Jonas Salk Papers, 1926-1991
University of California at San Diego
https://library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/findingaids/mss0001.html
Schweitzer, Albert
Albert Schweitzer Papers, 1896-1965
Syracuse University
https://library.syr.edu/scrc/collections/highlights/schweitzer.php
Shetterly, Robert
Founder of Americans Who Tell the Truth
https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/about-us
Shiva, Vandana
Scholar and advocate for global policies on water, food, soil, and corporate harms of same
https://www.navdanya.org/site/
https://twitter.com/drvandanashiva
Snowden, Edward
Whistleblower of NSA/CIA/FBI breaches of the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights
Author of autobiography, “Permanent Record” (Macmillan, 2019)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250237231
Tarbell, Ida Minerva
Tarbell’s “History of the Standard Oil Company” (1904) was and remains historic in its impacts
The Documents of Ida M. Tarbell, Allegheny College
https://dspace.allegheny.edu/handle/10456/13708
Teresa, Mother
(Bojaxhiu, Anjezë Gonzhe or Mary Teresa)
https://www.motherteresa.org/
Tolstoy, Lev Nikolayavich
Tolstoyan Pacifism
https://friendshousemoscow.org/the-chertkov-archives/
Zinn, Howard
List of Articles and Interviews (Bibliography excluded)
https://www.howardzinn.org/articles-and-interviews/