Human Rights


I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Just Mercy
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Between the World and Me
We Should All Be Feminists
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
The Hate U Give
Night
So You Want to Talk About Race
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftThe Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth GaskellThe Subjection of Women by John Stuart MillThe Autobiography of Margaret Sanger by Margaret Sanger
Early Feminists
189 books — 80 voters
Corrections in Ink by Keri BlakingerOrange Is the New Black by Piper KermanLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  Hough30 Years Behind Bars by Karen  GedneyPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MD
Women's prison memoirs
69 books — 58 voters

I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BrontëThis Is What America Looks Like by Ilhan OmarMy Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Books By Liberal Women
82 books — 4 voters
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAnimal Farm by George OrwellBloodlands by Timothy SnyderGulag by Anne ApplebaumDarkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Communist Genocide
202 books — 58 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellU.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding FathersAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandThe Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek
Best Books For Freedom Lovers
804 books — 491 voters
Ambedkar by Salim YusufjiAmbedkar by Gail OmvedtIconoclast by Anand TeltumbdeAmbedkar's Preamble by Aakash Singh RathoreThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor
Ambedkar — Books About Babasaheb
28 books — 5 voters

Rowan Atkinson
As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
Rowan Atkinson

Terry Goodkind
People use democracy as a free-floating abstraction disconnected from reality. Democracy in and of itself is not necessarily good. Gang rape, after all, is democracy in action. All men have the right to live their own life. Democracy must be rooted in a rational philosophy that first and foremost recognizes the right of an individual. A few million Imperial Order men screaming for the lives of a much smaller number of people in the New World may win a democratic vote, but it does not give them ...more
Terry Goodkind, Naked Empire

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