By: Jacob Mikanowski

“We are condemned to civilization.”

By: Devin McKinney

A muckraking civil rights journalist and conservative intellectual.

By: Alix Lambert

“Remember what connects people more than what separates them.”

By: Marilyn Berlin Snell

Her political awareness mirrored the photographic process.

By: Kio Stark

Profoundly political without any rhetoric.

By: Lucy Sante

One of history’s great noticers.

By: Lucy Sante

Anarchist, litterateur, honest man.

By: Tor Aarestad

He was John Brown and his people were slaves to big business hucksterism.

By: Brian Berger

His journalism about white tenant farmers became “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.”

By: Jerrold Freitag

He took down Rick Santorum and started the It Gets Better project.

By: Alix Lambert

“It’s not necessarily a happy world. We need to talk about this stuff.”

By: Barbara Bogaev

Her audacity and un­willing­ness to please remain shocking.

By: David Smay

Her books abrade the British literary canon.

By: Jerrold Freitag

He presaged barbarity by pointing out abuses to the German language.

By: Alix Lambert

“Everything that I know, I publish.”