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The nun who argued for women's right to learn — and was silenced for it.

Clockmaker turned mental healer whose notebooks seeded the entire New Thought movement.

Swedenborgian minister who wrote the first systematic books of mental-cure philosophy.

His Narrative was abolition's most powerful weapon.

Founded American psychology and, with Peirce, pragmatism; studied New Thought as 'mind-cure'.

Poet-revolutionary whose essays founded Cuban and pan-American thought.

Pragmatist whose learning-by-doing reshaped schools on every continent.

The Souls of Black Folk and the concept of double consciousness.

Founded Religious Science and wrote The Science of Mind, its systematic textbook.

Invented the labyrinth-library imagination that prefigured hypertext.

Taught imagination as the sole creative power; 'assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled'.

The Labyrinth of Solitude defined Mexican self-understanding.

A Theory of Justice: fairness derived from behind the veil of ignorance.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed rewrote literacy teaching for the global south.

Letter from Birmingham Jail and a movement that rewrote American law.

Anatomies of power across the Andes and the Caribbean.

Capabilities approach to justice, and a defence of emotion in public reason.

Vedic scholar whose texts linked Ayurveda, yoga and jyotish for Western students.