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: Stories from Rwanda
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
So You Want to Talk About Race
The Hate U Give
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Night
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAnimal Farm by George OrwellBloodlands by Timothy SnyderGulag by Anne ApplebaumDarkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Communist Genocide
201 books — 60 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyNight by Elie Wiesel
My Country, the Enemy
418 books — 343 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Rape of Nanking by Iris ChangHuế  1968 by Mark BowdenWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
War has no winners
1,150 books — 543 voters
Memoirs of a Dalit Communist by R.B. MoreRadical in Ambedkar by Anand TeltumbdeWhat Babasaheb Ambedkar Means to Me by Ambedkar Age CollectiveThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorElizabeth's Mountain by Lucille Guarino
Ambedkarite
26 books — 5 voters

Desmond Tutu
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Desmond Tutu

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Multiculturalism should not mean that we tolerate another culture’s intolerance. If we do in fact support diversity, women’s rights, and gay rights, then we cannot in good conscience give Islam a free pass on the grounds of multicultural sensitivity.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

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