Born a slave in Talbot, Maryland, Douglass later escaped to become a leading abolitionist. He once said, "Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, then neither persons nor property will be safe."

In 1954 Carson wrote, "The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction."

I've heard Chris O'Brien interviewed on the talk radio programs of Bob Kincaid and Jeff Farias. He has a wonderful project "Beeractivist.com" and this book where he talks about corporate versus microbreweries, organic ingredients and much else. O'Brien lives in Silver Springs.

This documentary is adapted from media critic Norman Solomon's book of the same name.

Baltimore's Mount Vernon neighborhood has a worker-owned coffeehouse and bookstore named after the radical thinker, Emma Goldman. www.redemmas.org

Sinclair was born in Baltimore.

Wolcott, who wrote this book criticizing right-wing media figures, was born in Baltimore.

Legendary labor organizer Mother Jones lived part of her life in Silver Spring.

Amos lived in Baltimore and Rockville, and attended Johns Hopkins.

Harriet Tubman, the "Moses" of slaves attempting to escape to freedom via the Underground Railroad, was born in Dorchester Country, MD. She said, "I started with this idea in my head - there's two things I've got a right to, and these are, Death or Liberty - one or the other I mean to have."

Herman Daly is a professor at the University of Maryland. He was recently featured in the documentary 'The Planet,' which aired on Link TV.

Abolitionist, orator, author and statesman Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland.

Poet Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore.

Blank has been a scholar at the Institute for Teaching and Research of Women at Towson University in MD.

Born in Baltimore.

DoHarris is a professor at Bowie State University.

Ira Glass, host of the public radio program "This American Life", was born in Baltimore. There is now a tv version of "This American Life" aired on Showtime.