| 100% | CORNELWEST | 10 | Philosopher and activist who wrote "Race Matters" |
| 55% | ANGELADAVIS | 11 | Political activist who wrote "Women, Race & Class" |
| 51% | JOHNDEWEY | 9 | Philosopher who wrote "Democracy and Education" |
| 51% | MCCAIN | 6 | Senator who wrote "Why Courage Matters" and "Hard Call" |
| 51% | AUDRE | 5 | Poet and activist Lorde who wrote “Cables to Rage” |
| 51% | GRACEPALEY | 10 | Author and activist who wrote, “It is the poet’s responsibility to learn the truth from the powerless” |
| 50% | NIETZSCHE | 9 | Philosopher who wrote Beyond Good and Evil |
| 50% | WEST | 4 | Cornel who wrote “Race Matters” |
| 50% | WEST | 4 | Cornel who wrote "Race Matters" |
| 48% | MIKEDAVIS | 9 | Californian activist and historian who wrote “City of Quartz” |
| 47% | MICHELFOUCAULT | 14 | French philosopher who wrote "Madness and Civilization" |
| 45% | GRETATHUNBERG | 13 | Swedish environmental activist who wrote "No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference" and who turns 18 today (2 wds.) |
| 43% | JAMESBALDVVIN | 13 | Novelist and civil rights activist who wrote "Go Tell It on the Mountain" |
| 42% | CORNEL | 6 | Philosopher and social activist West |
| 42% | EMILEZOLA | 9 | French writer and activist who saved Alfred Dreyfus |
| 42% | STACEYABRAMS | 12 | Voting rights activist who writes legal thrillers such as 14-Across under her own name and romance novels under the pen name Selena Montgomery (2 wds.) |
| 42% | PAINE | 5 | Activist who inspired Adams and Lincoln |
| 41% | MARY | 4 | I wrote "Frankenstein" and shared my name with my mother who was a writer and a feminist philosopher |
| 41% | ALICIAGARZA | 11 | Activist who co-founded Black Lives Matter |
| 41% | POE | 3 | Who wrote "To Helen" and "For Annie" |
| 40% | AGEE | 4 | Jon who wrote and illustrated "Palindromania!" |
| 40% | ABE | 3 | Burrows who wrote "Guys and Dolls" |
| 40% | AUSTEN | 6 | Jane who wrote "Sense and Sensibility" |
| 40% | VIDAL | 5 | Gore who wrote "Lincoln" and "1876" |
| 40% | WOLFF | 5 | Michael who wrote "Fire and Fury" |
| 40% | COLE | 4 | Porter who wrote "Night and Day" |
| 40% | JAFFE | 5 | Rona who wrote "Mazes and Monsters" |
| 40% | RONA | 4 | Jaffe who wrote "Mazes and Monsters" |
| 40% | AUSTEN | 6 | Jane who wrote "Pride and Prejudice" |
| 40% | HITE | 4 | Shere who wrote "Women and Love" |