Human Rights


I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Just Mercy
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Between the World and Me
We Should All Be Feminists
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
So You Want to Talk About Race
The Hate U Give
Night
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAnimal Farm by George OrwellBloodlands by Timothy SnyderGulag by Anne ApplebaumDarkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Communist Genocide
201 books — 60 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyNight by Elie Wiesel
My Country, the Enemy
418 books — 343 voters
Memoirs of a Dalit Communist by R.B. MoreRadical in Ambedkar by Anand TeltumbdeWhat Babasaheb Ambedkar Means to Me by Ambedkar Age CollectiveThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorElizabeth's Mountain by Lucille Guarino
Ambedkarite
26 books — 5 voters

Cassandra Clare
It is unusual,” said Cristina, “for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.
Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows

Jane Goodall
In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.
Jane Goodall

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