Mother Teresa is among the most well-known and highly respected women in the world in the latter half of the twentieth century. Born in Yugoslavia in 1910, Mother Teresa was a humanitarian who devoted her life to looking after the poor, the sick, the dying and the outcasts of society. She founded her own Order - Missionaries Of Charity, established a home for the dying, as well a leper colony, authored books, and in 1979 she received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Mother Teresa died in 1997at the age of 87. Her work continues through the various projects she started throughout her lifetime. She was a beacon of hope whose tireless faith and devotion to humanity touched the lives of many people. Mother Teresa is a shining example of Love In Action.

Her life's work and dedication can be summed up by the following excerpt from her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech:

"I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared-for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone."

Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois, the eighth of nine children. Her father was a prosperous miller and local political leader who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War; he was a friend of Abraham Lincoln whose letters to him began «My Dear Double D-'ed Addams». Because of a congenital spinal defect, Jane was not physically vigorous when young nor truly robust even later in life, but her spinal difficulty was remedied by surgery.

(Laura) Jane Addams (September 6, 1860-May 21, 1935) won worldwide recognition in the first third of the twentieth century as a pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and as an internationalist.