Who Do We Hold in High Esteem?

Modern Martyrs

Foreign Policy has listed…
… Mahatma Gandhi
… 
Eleanor Roosevelt
… 
U Thant, Václav Havel
… 
Ken Saro-Wiwa
… 
Fazle Hasan Abed
… 
Sari Nusseibeh
… 
Corazon Aquino
… 
as people who “never won the prize, but should have”.[

Other notable omissions that have drawn criticism include
… Pope John Paul II
… 
Hélder Câmara
… 
Dorothy Day
… 
Irena Sendler

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