Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) was an Indian lawyer who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India’s independence. He later inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
Dietrick Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a German pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident. He was opposed to Hitler’s genocide of the Jews, and ran “underground seminaries” during the war. In 1943 he was imprisoned by the Gestapo. Bonhoeffer was executed in the spring of 1945.