Slavery


The Underground Railroad
Kindred
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
The Invention of Wings
Homegoing
James
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Kitchen House
Twelve Years a Slave
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
Chains (Seeds of America, #1)
The Water Dancer
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat,
Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay ...more
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Fernando Pessoa
Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave. You may have all the splendours of the mind and the soul, in which case you're a noble slave, or an intelligent servant, but you're not free. And you can't hold this up as your own tragedy, for your birth is a tragedy of Fate alo ...more
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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