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The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.26 — 340,689 ratings — published 2014
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.50 — 32,326 ratings — published 2003
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.62 — 6,225 ratings — published 2021
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.14 — 140,263 ratings — published 1845
The House Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 3.77 — 63,844 ratings — published 2013
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,930 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,963 ratings — published 2010
Abolition. Feminism. Now. (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,717 ratings — published 2022
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.62 — 274,112 ratings — published 2014
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.59 — 37,181 ratings — published 1981
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.10 — 108,119 ratings — published 2023
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,372 ratings — published 2020
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,157 ratings — published 2011
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.24 — 840 ratings — published 2011
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,741 ratings — published 2017
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.26 — 90,884 ratings — published 1974
The Good Lord Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 3.96 — 39,879 ratings — published 2013
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (Lidie Newton, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 3.59 — 2,971 ratings — published 1998
Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.11 — 36 ratings — published
Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.49 — 661 ratings — published
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.49 — 3,490 ratings — published 2023
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,747 ratings — published 2021
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,272 ratings — published 2008
How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against Imprisonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 3.93 — 126 ratings — published 2024
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,802 ratings — published 2005
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,832 ratings — published 1963
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.64 — 89,458 ratings — published 2018
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,964 ratings — published 1984
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,286 ratings — published 2019
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.46 — 433,022 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.31 — 298,921 ratings — published 1979
The Water Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.06 — 122,276 ratings — published 2019
The Book of Negroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.47 — 93,514 ratings — published 2007
Sab (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,429 ratings — published 1841
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionist)
avg rating 3.92 — 248,070 ratings — published 1852
Border Abolition Now (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.08 — 13 ratings — published
Ain't I a Woman? (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.18 — 684 ratings — published 1851
Night of Freedom (Black Heritage Library Collection)
by (shelved 1 time as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1971
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.44 — 240 ratings — published 2020
Empire of Punishment: Mass Incarceration and Social Reproduction (Mapping Social Reproduction Theory)
by (shelved 1 time as abolitionist)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies (Emergent Strategy #9)
by (shelved 1 time as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.40 — 195 ratings — published 2023
Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as abolitionist)
avg rating 3.55 — 61 ratings — published 2022
Talking About Abolition: A Police-Free World Is Possible (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.00 — 16 ratings — published
Slaves in the Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,158 ratings — published 1998
Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.52 — 330 ratings — published 2025
Civil Disobedience (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as abolitionist)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,798 ratings — published 1849
Treasure and Trouble: A Story of Risk, Redemption, and Relentless Faith (Troubles of the Heart Book 1)
by (shelved 1 time as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published
We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.48 — 91 ratings — published
Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.45 — 332 ratings — published 2022
Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence (Abolitionist Papers)
by (shelved 1 time as abolitionist)
avg rating 4.42 — 36 ratings — published
“Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interests
in being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large part to mean that we cannot impose “unnecessary” harm on animals, and that is measured by what treatment is considered as necessary within particular industries, and according to customs of use, to exploit animals. The bottom line is that animals do not have any respect-based rights in the way that humans have, because we do not regard animals as having any moral value. They have only economic value. We value their interests economically, and we ignore their interests when it is economically beneficial for us to do so.
At this point in time, it makes no sense to focus on the law, because as long as we regard animals as things, as a moral matter, the laws will necessarily reflect that absence of moral value and continue to do nothing to protect animals. We need to change social and moral thinking about animals before the law is going to do anything more.”
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in being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large part to mean that we cannot impose “unnecessary” harm on animals, and that is measured by what treatment is considered as necessary within particular industries, and according to customs of use, to exploit animals. The bottom line is that animals do not have any respect-based rights in the way that humans have, because we do not regard animals as having any moral value. They have only economic value. We value their interests economically, and we ignore their interests when it is economically beneficial for us to do so.
At this point in time, it makes no sense to focus on the law, because as long as we regard animals as things, as a moral matter, the laws will necessarily reflect that absence of moral value and continue to do nothing to protect animals. We need to change social and moral thinking about animals before the law is going to do anything more.”
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“Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.”
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