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Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia (Activist Citizens Library)

by Mike Pepi (Goodreads Author)

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It Can't Happen Here (Signet Classics)

by Sinclair Lewis

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The ABA Right to Read Handbook: A Reader's Guide to Fighting Book Bans

by American Booksellers Association

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“We all impose some coherence—some meaning—on the chaotic events of our existence. We rummage through the raw images of our memories, selecting, burnishing, erasing. We emerge as the heroes of our stories, allowing us to live with what we have done—or haven’t done.”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

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“Just as people tailor their stories to serve their interests - revising, erasing, embroidering - so do nations.”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

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“People were forced to jump from a village into a city, to make the giant leap from feudalism to communism, without the time or education to develop a civic society vandal its values and habits, from the concept of private property to huma rights, from democracy to toilet paper.”
― Slavenka Drakulić, Café Europa: Life After Communism

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“It's easy to distance ourselves from the past and write 'the civil war lasted four years' and forget how unbearable those four years were for the people of Rome while half the men were off killing one another, with no knowledge of when it would end. Four years is a long time in the lives of humans.”
― Emma Southon, A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome

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“It's important to stand still sometimes. Think of it as a little rest in the long journey of your life. This is your harbor. And your boat is just dropping anchor here for a little while. And after you're well rested, you can set sail again.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa; Eric Ozawa, trans.

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