10 People Who Aren't Afraid To Be Who They Are

Dunham has been in the spotlight ever since releasing her first feature film, Tiny Furniture in 2010. She has always been vocal about her views and she hasn't let fame change her views about herself or women, broadly.

On the subject, she had this say: "On Girls I like being a mouthpiece for the issues I think young females face today. It's always shocking when people question whether it's a feminist show. How could a show about women exploring women not be? Feminism isn't a dirty word. It's not like we're a deranged group who think women should take over the planet, raise our young on our own and eliminate men from the picture. Feminism is about women having all the rights that men have."

When she was just 11, Yousafzai started writing an anonymous blog for the BBC about her life under Taliban rule in Pakistan. Since then, she has become a prominent education and women's rights advocate in a region where there are even few adults trying to do so—and she continues to fight for what she believes is right, despite an attempt on her life in 2012. She is also the youngest nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize in history.

Mr. Rogers was originally an educator and Presbyterian minister who went into television because he had a fundamental problem with how it addressed children. How did he seek to change it? In Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Mr. Rogers would directly talk WITH children, rather than TO them—even if just through their screens—with messages like, "One of the greatest gifts you can give anybody is the gift of your honest self" and sang songs to comfort children's common fears, like being sucked down a bathtub drain, and even took a trip to the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh to allay fears of the hospital.