Social Justice

Social justice is the idea that people with different backgrounds and different characteristics should have the same opportunity and rights, and be given equal status in life.

New Releases Tagged "Social Justice"

We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope
Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
How Girls Are Made
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Abundance
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Solito
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
The Women on Platform Two
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
The Message
Take My Hand
Poverty, by America
The Wilderness
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0)
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Between the World and Me
Just Mercy
How to Be an Antiracist
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
So You Want to Talk About Race
The Hate U Give
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
The Fire Next Time
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
We Should All Be Feminists
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Progressive Reads
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Homelessness in Children's Fiction
114 books — 39 voters

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Women's prison memoirs
68 books — 50 voters



Dorothy Day
Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
Dorothy Day

Bryan Stevenson
The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is, Do we deserve to kill?
Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

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