58.0% of matchups won
710 matchups
Elo 1471
tracked 2025/05/18 → 2026/04/11
mission: Empower through literature and activism · Literature and civil rights · politicians
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing57%
picked as helping wellbeing
640 matchups
66%
picked as hurting wellbeing
70 matchups
On balance people see it as hurting.
Who rates it higher
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar people
01
Angela Davis
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56.6% wins · American political activist, scholar, and author
02
bell hooks
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34.1% wins · American author and activist (1952–2021)
03
Simone Weil
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47.3% wins · French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)
04
Edward Abbey
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40.5% wins · American author and essayist (1927-1989)
05
Susan Sontag
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61.8% wins · American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist (1933–2004)
Known for
- First Black female streetcar conductor
- First inaugural poet since 1961
- Published I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Grammy Awards for spoken word
Based on 710 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/04/11. Full rankings ·
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