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Familia

by Lauren E. Rico (Goodreads Author)

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Patriot: A Memoir

by Alexei Navalny

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The Moviegoer

by Walker Percy

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

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It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless ...more

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Matt’s Quotes

“The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.”
― Marcus Garvey

tags: activism, belief, integrity, social-justice

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“We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.”
― Haile Selassie I

tags: courage, humanity, men, race, spirit

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“The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.”
― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

tags: activism, awareness, change, education, knowledge, revolution, truth

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