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Influence Map — Description

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These are some of the people that influence me for their work in several causes. Some political, some social, some poetic, some historic. Some were socialist, some were anti-socialist, some were atheist, some were spiritual, some were pantheist, some where theist. Some where founding fathers of the United States, some were slaves of that system, some were victims of the reformation of that system before said system was even established.

If you want to know exactly who each person is, here is the picture with numbers over each of the people, and below shows each number with the name of the people:
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1. Friedrich Engels
2. A. Philip Randolph
3. A. J. Muste
4. Thurgood Marshall
5. Vladimir Lenin
6. Karl Marx
7. Albert Einstein
8. William Lloyd Garrison
9. Bayard Rustin
10. Henry David Thoreau
11. Howard Zinn
12. Hubert Harrison
13. Huey P. Newton
14. Barbara Ehrenreich
15. Charles Darwin
16. Bertrand Russell
17. Leon Trotsky
18. Mary White Ovington
19. Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
20. Martin Luther King Jr.
21. Bobby Seale
22. Richard Dawkins
23. Eugene V. Debs.
24. Mohandas Gandhi
25. Thomas Paine
26. Nelson Mandela
27. Cornel West
28. Friedrich Nietzsche
29. George Bernard Shaw
30. Norman Thomas
31. Coretta Scott King
32. Medgar Evers
33. Thomas Jefferson
34. Fidel Castro
35. Madalyn Murray O'Hair
36. Harvey Milk
37. Upton Sinclair
38. Franklin D. Roosevelt
39. Lyndon B. Johnson
40. Abraham Lincoln
41. Rose Pastor Stokes
42. W. E. B. Du Bois
43. Baruch Spinoza
44. Carl Sagan
45. Daniel Dennett
46. Epicurus
47. Sam Harris
48. Maya Angelou
49. George Carlin
50. Alfred Russel Wallace
51. Christopher Hitchens
52. Albert Camus
53. Noam Chomsky
54. James Baldwin
55. Percy Bysshe Shelley
56. Pete Stark
57. Malcolm X
58. Frederick Douglass
59. Sitting Bull

Some of these people have made major impacts on my life, some I have had the pleasure of meeting in person, or at the very least seeing them speak at certain events around the United States and abroad. I have read literally hundreds of pages on each of the people mentioned above, for the most part I agree with them all. Though there are some things with some of them I also may not agree with on certain political, or social issues.

When looking at some other “Influence Maps” many of them did not have the reasons why they chose each individual person. I think looking at all of my past writings on what topics are passionate to me that it would be quite easy to see why I choose these individual people for my influence chart.

It should be said that this is only 59, I had made up a list of 100 but that was way too long so decided to try and cut people off of it. I may also do more in the future and break it up into “Political Influence Map” “Musical Influence Map” etc …

Okay, I guess that is all comrades.