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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 121 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.16 — 642,865 ratings — published 2012
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,975 ratings — published 2008
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.62 — 274,490 ratings — published 2014
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,182 ratings — published 2002
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,382 ratings — published 1998
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.52 — 121,062 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.40 — 378,511 ratings — published 2015
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.46 — 106,650 ratings — published 2009
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.39 — 344,203 ratings — published 2012
The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,943 ratings — published 2026
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.49 — 36,899 ratings — published 2020
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,519 ratings — published 2007
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.48 — 109,072 ratings — published 2018
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,587 ratings — published 2014
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.48 — 11,497 ratings — published 2023
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.35 — 208,361 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,049,612 ratings — published 2017
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as human-rights)
avg rating 3.87 — 58,029 ratings — published 2025
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.52 — 170,169 ratings — published 2020
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.49 — 193,751 ratings — published 2013
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.14 — 835,115 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,412,430 ratings — published 2012
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.48 — 111,316 ratings — published 2015
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,901 ratings — published 2003
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.20 — 74,469 ratings — published 1998
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,215 ratings — published 2020
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,791 ratings — published 2003
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.15 — 83,013 ratings — published 2014
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,735 ratings — published 2017
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.15 — 56,996 ratings — published 2024
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.21 — 45,283 ratings — published 2014
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,169,214 ratings — published 1960
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 28 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,892 ratings — published 2018
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.55 — 132,219 ratings — published 1963
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.01 — 74,030 ratings — published 2012
Inventing Human Rights: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as human-rights)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,255 ratings — published 2007
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as human-rights)
avg rating 3.86 — 46,506 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,338 ratings — published 2019
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.37 — 98,600 ratings — published 1991
Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as human-rights)
avg rating 3.59 — 363 ratings — published 1989
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,358,650 ratings — published 1947
Sold (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.25 — 70,691 ratings — published 2006
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,757 ratings — published 2024
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State (Audio CD)
by (shelved 26 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.48 — 30,158 ratings — published 2017
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.47 — 119,290 ratings — published 2016
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.25 — 14,201 ratings — published 2003
Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as human-rights)
avg rating 3.66 — 701 ratings — published 2007
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,484 ratings — published 1999
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.46 — 433,909 ratings — published 2016
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as human-rights)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,475 ratings — published 2020
“Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“People use democracy as a free-floating abstraction disconnected from reality. Democracy in and of itself is not necessarily good. Gang rape, after all, is democracy in action.
All men have the right to live their own life. Democracy must be rooted in a rational philosophy that first and foremost recognizes the right of an individual. A few million Imperial Order men screaming for the lives of a much smaller number of people in the New World may win a democratic vote, but it does not give them the right to those lives, or make their calls for such killing right.
Democracy is not a synonym for justice or for freedom. Democracy is not a sacred right sanctifying mob rule. Democracy is a principle that is subordinate to the inalienable rights of the individual.”
― Naked Empire
All men have the right to live their own life. Democracy must be rooted in a rational philosophy that first and foremost recognizes the right of an individual. A few million Imperial Order men screaming for the lives of a much smaller number of people in the New World may win a democratic vote, but it does not give them the right to those lives, or make their calls for such killing right.
Democracy is not a synonym for justice or for freedom. Democracy is not a sacred right sanctifying mob rule. Democracy is a principle that is subordinate to the inalienable rights of the individual.”
― Naked Empire
