What's a word that means smart, dramatic, and ambitious?

Considering "civil disobedience," why did both thoreau and martin luther king, jr. engage in acts of civil disobedience? to take a stand against government taxation to protest government policies they believed were unjust to protest slavery and the mexican-american war to take a stand against unfair laws in the 1950s and ‘60s

The library carries many current books.what is the adjective

In “we wear the mask,” which message is conveyed by dunbar’s repetition of the phrase “we wear the mask”?