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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,910 ratings — published 2010
Change Sings: a Children's Anthem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.54 — 4,289 ratings — published 2021
I Am One: A Book of Action (I Am Books)
by (shelved 4 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.36 — 660 ratings — published 2020
Say Something! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,156 ratings — published 2019
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.46 — 55,112 ratings — published 2020
Black Brother, Black Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,909 ratings — published 2020
A Good Kind of Trouble (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,036 ratings — published 2019
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,860 ratings — published 2016
Ban This Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.40 — 16,643 ratings — published 2017
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,036,970 ratings — published 2017
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.62 — 270,193 ratings — published 2014
Never Silent: A Hiroshima Survivor's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.19 — 79 ratings — published 2025
See You Soon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.39 — 150 ratings — published
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,386 ratings — published 2023
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,621 ratings — published 2018
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.49 — 12,944 ratings — published 2019
Answers in the Pages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,045 ratings — published 2022
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.62 — 22,318 ratings — published 2021
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,518 ratings — published 2005
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,041 ratings — published 2018
Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,081 ratings — published 2019
Women Rise Up: Sacred Stories of Resistance for Today's Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.25 — 92 ratings — published 2019
Speak Up: An Empowering Picture Book about Finding Your Voice and Making a Difference for Children (Ages 4-7)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.36 — 643 ratings — published 2020
Letter from the Birmingham Jail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.72 — 9,091 ratings — published 1963
No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.48 — 293 ratings — published 2020
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,266 ratings — published 2017
Act (Click #3)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,997 ratings — published 2020
Vote for Our Future! (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.27 — 490 ratings — published 2020
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.32 — 86,878 ratings — published 2017
Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.27 — 296 ratings — published 2018
Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,385 ratings — published 2020
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,960 ratings — published 2004
Room On Our Rock (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.26 — 488 ratings — published 2018
They Called Us Enemy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.42 — 57,002 ratings — published 2019
Operation Frog Effect (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.25 — 995 ratings — published 2019
Slacker (Slacker, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,556 ratings — published 2016
March: Book One (March, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.35 — 58,132 ratings — published 2013
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.48 — 121,183 ratings — published 2010
Ghost Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.33 — 34,128 ratings — published 2018
Malala's Magic Pencil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.51 — 5,488 ratings — published 2017
Letters to a Prisoner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.24 — 380 ratings — published 2017
The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,575 ratings — published 2017
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,522 ratings — published 2016
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,414 ratings — published 2004
A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,259 ratings — published 2014
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,148 ratings — published 1966
Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 3.70 — 723 ratings — published 1999
This Day in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,776 ratings — published 2013
On a Clear Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 2.47 — 348 ratings — published 2014
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-action)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,999 ratings — published 2009
“When I was young and living high above the city of Lhasa in the Potala Palace, I frequently looked at the life of the city through a telescope. I also learned a lot from the gossip of the sweepers in the palace. They were like my newspaper, relating what the Regent was doing, and what corruption and scandals were going on. I was always happy to listen, and they were proud to be telling the Dalai Lama about what was happening in the streets. The harsh events that unfolded after the invasion in 1950 forced me to become directly involved in issues that otherwise would have been kept at a distance. As a result I have come to prefer a life of committed social action in this world of suffering.”
― How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life
― How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life
“Maybe it is just easier to focus on life’s trivial missteps when the real challenges feel so insurmountable. But by doing this aren’t we also exhausting ourselves on petty grievances and leaving nothing in the tank for the real issues?”
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