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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as activist)
avg rating 4.16 — 623,911 ratings — published 2012
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as activist)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,471 ratings — published 2019
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as activist)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,012,265 ratings — published 2017
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,204 ratings — published 1981
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,184 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,850 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,345 ratings — published 2010
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.29 — 107,485 ratings — published 2017
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.36 — 194,141 ratings — published 2025
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,870 ratings — published 2022
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.47 — 14,790 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 291,535 ratings — published 1965
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.55 — 121,278 ratings — published 1963
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.70 — 39,659 ratings — published 2021
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.09 — 266,350 ratings — published 1980
All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,468 ratings — published 2020
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,157 ratings — published 1997
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,404 ratings — published 2020
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 100,992 ratings — published 2017
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.62 — 261,972 ratings — published 2014
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 3.85 — 27,800 ratings — published 2019
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,978 ratings — published 2017
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.39 — 330,809 ratings — published 2012
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.40 — 366,708 ratings — published 2015
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.31 — 271,707 ratings — published 1979
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.13 — 134,980 ratings — published 1845
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.44 — 35,722 ratings — published 2015
Laut Bercerita (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.61 — 24,804 ratings — published 2017
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.61 — 24,337 ratings — published 2019
Indigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,115 ratings — published 1996
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.11 — 92,279 ratings — published 2023
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.75 — 4,468 ratings — published 2024
Antiracist Baby (Board Book)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,997 ratings — published 2020
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,513 ratings — published 2024
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.38 — 11,697 ratings — published 2017
Sometimes People March (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.36 — 630 ratings — published 2020
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.25 — 15,914 ratings — published 2018
Like a Love Story (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.26 — 15,910 ratings — published 2019
The Artivist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.39 — 514 ratings — published 2023
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.74 — 72,988 ratings — published 2023
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,099 ratings — published 2022
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.26 — 102,481 ratings — published 1970
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.51 — 173,235 ratings — published 2013
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,439 ratings — published 2020
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.11 — 196,719 ratings — published 2018
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,993 ratings — published 2019
A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 205 ratings — published 2022
Fighting for YES!: The Story of Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.41 — 389 ratings — published 2022
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.64 — 5,976 ratings — published 2021
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,687 ratings — published 2020
“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”
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“I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.”
― The Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words
― The Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words
