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When a Loved One Won't Seek Mental Health Treatment: How to Promote Recovery and Reclaim Your Family's Well-Being

by C. Alec Pollard

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There There

by Tommy Orange (Goodreads Author)

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My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

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Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain

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Aristotle wondered why the great poets, philosophers, artists, and politicians often have melancholic personalities.

Are Prisons Obsolete? (Open Media Series)

by Angela Y. Davis

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“Before Palestinians are even arrested, they are already in prison.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

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“trans people of color constitute the group most likely to be arrested and imprisoned. Racism provides the fuel for maintenance, reproduction, and expansion of the prison-industrial complex.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

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“Just as we say “never again” with respect to the fascism that produced the Holocaust, we should also say “never again” with respect to apartheid in South Africa, and in the southern US.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

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“If we don’t transform our sorrows and longings, we can end up inflicting them on others via abuse, domination, neglect.”
― Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

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“The most immediate question today is how to prevent the further expansion of prison populations and how to bring as many imprisoned women and men as possible back into what prisoners call “the free world.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

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