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“The door is open. Go.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

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“Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
― Eugene V. Debs

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“Suchi knew now that home wasn't a place. It wasn't moments that could be pinned down. It was people. People who shared the same ghosts as you of folks long gone, places long disappeared. People who knew you, saw you, loved you. When those people were far flung, your home was, too. And when those people were gone, home lived on inside you.”
― Karissa Chen, Homeseeking

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“One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.”
― Robert Hass, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry

tags: poets

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“An attempt to create a new conceptual terrain for imagining alternatives to imprisonment involves the ideological work of questioning why "criminals" have been constituted as a class and, indeed, a class of human beings undeserving of the civil and human rights accorded to others. Radical criminologists have long pointed out that the category "lawbreakers" is far greater than the category of individuals who are deemed criminals since, many point out, almost all of us have broken the law at one time or another.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

tags: angela-davis, criminal-justice

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What's the Name of That Book??? — 122041 members — last activity 8 minutes ago
Can't remember the title of a book you read? Come search our bookshelves and discussion posts. If you don’t find it there, post a description on our U ...more

The F-word — 5758 members — last activity Jan 16, 2026 02:23PM
This is our reading group for anybody who loves to read and identifies as a feminist. We'll be reading a variety of books that may fall into one of th ...more

Around the World in 80 Books — 31852 members — last activity 5 hours, 59 min ago
Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more