Photograph of African-American poet and writer Langston Hughes.

Langston Hughes

(1902 - 1967)

Alice Walker

Drawing of a woman in a bonnet and wide collar

Angelina Grimké

(1805 - 1879)

Image of Chinese poet Bai Juyi.

Bai Juyi

(772 - 846)

Wanyan Jinchi

(c. 1770 - c. 1840)

Frantz Fanon

(1925 - 1961)

Christine Henneberg

Painting of Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

(1588 - 1679)

Augusto Ernesto Llosa Giraldo

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Lewis H. Lapham

(1935 - 2024)

Ifeoma Okoye

Man in a jacket and tie resting an elbow on a railing and holding a hat

Channing Pollock

(1880 - 1946)

Photograph of American novelist Kate Chopin.

Kate Chopin

(1851 - 1904)

American poet, journalist, and essayist Walt Whitman.

Walt Whitman

(1819 - 1892)

Painting of a man in a broad-brimmed hat holding a pipe in his mouth

Diego Rivera

(1886 - 1957)

Jean-Jacques Dessalines

(c. 1758 - 1806)

Koigi wa Wamwere

Arthur Quiller-Couch

(1863 - 1944)

Portrait of communist theorist and agitator Leon Trotsky.

Leon Trotsky

(1879 - 1940)

Nadine Gordimer

(1923 - 2014)

Raymond Queneau

(1903 - 1976)

Black and white image of Roman philosopher and statesman Seneca the Younger.

Seneca the Younger

(4 BC - 65)

Photograph of Astra Taylor by Isabella De Maddalena

Astra Taylor

Sepia colored photo of Oscar Wilde sitting on a rock with a book in his hand

Oscar Wilde

(1854 - 1900)

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

(1841 - 1935)

Felipe Guáman Poma de Ayala

(c. 1535 - c. 1615)

Engraving of a bearded man seated with a crutch and writing at a desk

Epictetus

(c. 55 - c. 135)

William Craft

(1824 - 1900)

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Wumen Huikai

Wumen Huikai

(1183 - 1260)

Photograph of a smiling gray-haired woman resting her chin in her right hand

Robin Morgan

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari

(1878 - 1972)

Black and white photograph of Friedrich Nietzsche with a huge mustache.

Friedrich Nietzsche

(1844 - 1900)

Black and white photograph of scholar, novelist, and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis.

C.S. Lewis

(1898 - 1963)

Margaret Cavendish

(1623 - 1673)

William Bolitho

(1891 - 1930)

Gerrard Winstanley

(1609 - 1676)

Man with a graying beard wearing a dark suit jacket

Andrey Kurkov

Louis de Jaucourt

(1704 - 1779)

Chief Joseph

(1840 - 1904)

Yvonne Vera

(1964 - 2005)

Ted Chiang

Knights of Labor

(1869 - 1949)

Oil painting portrair Michel de Montaigne in red robes and white collar

Michel de Montaigne

(1533 - 1592)

Portrait of English-American writer and polemicist Thomas Paine.

Thomas Paine

(1737 - 1809)

Richard Harvey Cain

(1825 - 1887)

Illustration of Cosmas of Prague

Cosmas of Prague

(c. 1045 - 1125)

Photograph of a seated white-haired man in a white T-shirt

Edmund White

Belinda

(c. 1713 - c. 1800)

Svetlana Alexievich. Sergento (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Svetlana Alexievich

Black and white photograph of political scientist and philosopher Hannah Arendt holding a cigarette.

Hannah Arendt

(1906 - 1975)

Painted portrait of second President of the United States John Adams.

John Adams

(1735 - 1826)

American novelist John Dos Passos.

John Dos Passos

(1896 - 1970)

Nadja Durbach

Sculpture bust of Greek dramatist Euripides.

Euripides

(c. 484 BC - c. 406 BC)

Painting of a man with shoulder-length curly hair wearing a white square collar

Benedict de Spinoza

(1632 - 1677)

Black-and-white photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. with his right hand lifted

Martin Luther King Jr.

(1929 - 1968)

B.R. Ambedkar

(1891 - 1956)

Randolph Bourne

(1886 - 1918)

Depiction of German abbess and mystic St. Hildegard.

Hildegard of Bingen

(1098 - 1179)

Portrait of Russian political thinker and writer Alexander Herzen.

Alexander Herzen

(1812 - 1870)

Black and white photograph of French mystic, philosopher, and activist Simone Weil.

Simone Weil

(1909 - 1943)

Young man at a podium

Huey P. Newton

(1942 - 1989)

Eugene V. Debs

(1855 - 1926)

Portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville wearing a black suit and standing in front of a chair.

Alexis de Tocqueville

(1805 - 1859)

Kandiaronk

(c. 1649 - 1701)

English novelist, essayist, and critic George Orwell.

George Orwell

(1903 - 1950)

Charles I

(1600 - 1649)

Portrait of Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(1712 - 1778)

Color painting early Chinese philosopher Mengzi.

Mencius

(c. 371 BC - c. 289 BC)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

(1882 - 1945)

Herod Agrippa II

(27 - c. 93)

Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.

Fernando Pessoa

(1888 - 1935)

Russian author Anton Chekhov.

Anton Chekhov

(1860 - 1904)

Black and white photograph of a man in a turban with his arms crossed

Vivekananda

(1863 - 1902)

Marble bust of a bearded man

Demosthenes

(384 BC - 322 BC)

Photograph of a man holding tinted glasses to his face

André Breton

(1896 - 1966)

Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

(1821 - 1881)

Statue depicting Roman orator and historian Tacitus.

Tacitus

(56 - c. 120)

Kwame Nkrumah

(1909 - 1972)

French author the Marquis de Sade.

Marquis de Sade

(1740 - 1814)

Black and white photograph of a young Mark Twain with dark hair.

Mark Twain

(1835 - 1910)

Smiling man with a mustache wearing sunglasses and a scarf

Nuruddin Farah

Painted portrait of English poet John Milton.

John Milton

(1608 - 1674)

Zeami

(c. 1363 - c. 1443)

Nawal El Saadawi

(1931 - 2021)

Illustration of a woman wearing a bonnet and writing with a quill at a desk

Phillis Wheatley

(c. 1753 - 1784)

Curtis White

Seated man with a woman standing behind him with her hands on his shoulders.

Will Durant

(1885 - 1981)

Engraving of a man looking at the heavens and writing on a tablet

Jan van Ruysbroeck

(c. 1293 - 1381)

Painting of William Wordsworth.

William Wordsworth

(1770 - 1850)

Isaac of Nineveh

(c. 613 - c. 700)

Charlotte Wilson

(1854 - 1944)

Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu

Woman wearing glasses seated at a desk with books stacked in front of her

Elizabeth Anderson

Black-and-white photograph of a young man wearing a coat and tie

Robert Walser

(1878 - 1956)

Juan José Arévalo

(1904 - 1990)

Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes.

Miguel de Cervantes

(1547 - 1616)

Woman holding a lorgnette and standing next to a table, with her hand on an open book

Emmeline Pankhurst

(1858 - 1928)

Black and white image of American writer Herman Melville.

Herman Melville

(1819 - 1891)

b&w photograph of Octavio Paz in a crowd

Octavio Paz

(1914 - 1998)