Teachers of Ahimsa

  1. Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha)
  2. Cesar Estrada Chavez
  3. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
  4. Dorothy Day
  5. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
  6. Archbishop Desmond Tutu
  7. Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī (Rumi)
  8. Albert Einstein
  9. Jane Addams
  10. Jiddu Krishnamurti
  11. John Lewis
  12. Jesus of Nazareth
  13. Vinoba Bhave
  14. Sojourner Truth
  15. Aung San Suu Kyi
  16. Edith Stein
  17. Chief Joseph
  18. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
  19. Rabindranath Tagore
  20. Abraham Joshua Heschel
  21. Albert Schweitzer
  22. Jane Goodall
  23. Wangari Muta Maathai
  24. Karol Jozef Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II)
  25. Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone (St. Francis of Assisi)
  26. Paul of Tarsus (St. Paul)
  27. Agnes Gouxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Theresa)
  28. Khwāja Shamsu d-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī (Hāfez)
  29. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  30. Susan B. Anthony
  31. Howard Thurman
  32. George Fox
  33. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  34. Mahāvīra
  35. John Dear
  36. Tenzin Gyatso (The Dali Lama)
  37. Kahlil Gibran
  38. William Wilberforce
  39. King Ashoka
  40. John Woolman
  41. John Muir
  42. Vadana Shiva
  43. Leymah Gbowee
  44. Sister Helen Prejean
  45. Julia Butterfly Hill
  46. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  47. Archbishop Oscar Romero
  48. Swami Vivekananda
  49. Henry David Thoreau
  50. Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley
  51. Thich Nhat Hanh
  52. Lanza del Vasto
  53. Mírzá Ḥusayn-`Alí Núrí (Bahá’u’lláh)
  54. Thomas Merton
  55. Chief Black Kettle4438077_orig

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