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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as activist)
avg rating 4.16 — 641,701 ratings — published 2012
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as activist)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,047,555 ratings — published 2017
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as activist)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,221 ratings — published 2019
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as activist)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,860 ratings — published 2010
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.31 — 309,237 ratings — published 2025
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,893 ratings — published 2020
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,447 ratings — published 1981
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,723 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,959 ratings — published 2018
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 301,466 ratings — published 1965
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,413 ratings — published 2022
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,170 ratings — published 2016
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,365 ratings — published 2019
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,566 ratings — published 2015
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.28 — 114,432 ratings — published 2017
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.55 — 82,697 ratings — published 2025
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.14 — 139,903 ratings — published 1845
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,873 ratings — published 2015
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.50 — 192,295 ratings — published 2013
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,454 ratings — published 1963
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.69 — 42,814 ratings — published 2021
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.09 — 275,508 ratings — published 1980
All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,537 ratings — published 2020
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,638 ratings — published 1997
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.50 — 32,251 ratings — published 2003
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,445 ratings — published 2017
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.62 — 273,758 ratings — published 2014
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,420 ratings — published 2017
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.39 — 343,301 ratings — published 2012
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.48 — 26,114 ratings — published 2018
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.31 — 298,054 ratings — published 1979
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.12 — 552,658 ratings — published 2022
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,579,408 ratings — published 1985
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,681 ratings — published 2024
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.33 — 184,305 ratings — published 2019
Revenge of the Tipping Point (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.02 — 67,385 ratings — published 2024
Finding My Way: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.48 — 21,083 ratings — published 2025
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.12 — 160,617 ratings — published 2025
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,805,711 ratings — published 1949
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.29 — 17,231 ratings — published 2024
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.34 — 24,599 ratings — published 1986
Laut Bercerita (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.59 — 28,564 ratings — published 2017
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.61 — 26,103 ratings — published 2019
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,178 ratings — published 2023
Indigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,845 ratings — published 1996
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.10 — 107,614 ratings — published 2023
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.72 — 5,406 ratings — published 2024
Antiracist Baby (Board Book)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,073 ratings — published 2020
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,781 ratings — published 2024
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 12,536 ratings — published 2017
“They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us to barricade our doors
and hide our children.
Their aim is to make us fear life itself!
They want us to hate.
They want us to hate 'the other'.
They want us to practice aggression
and perfect antagonism.
Their aim is to divide us all!
They want us to be inhuman.
They want us to throw out our kindness.
They want us to bury our love
and burn our hope.
Their aim is to take all our light!
They think their bricked walls
will separate us.
They think their damned bombs
will defeat us.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that my soul and your soul are old friends.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that when they cut you I bleed.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that we will never be afraid,
we will never hate
and we will never be silent
for life is ours!”
―
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us to barricade our doors
and hide our children.
Their aim is to make us fear life itself!
They want us to hate.
They want us to hate 'the other'.
They want us to practice aggression
and perfect antagonism.
Their aim is to divide us all!
They want us to be inhuman.
They want us to throw out our kindness.
They want us to bury our love
and burn our hope.
Their aim is to take all our light!
They think their bricked walls
will separate us.
They think their damned bombs
will defeat us.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that my soul and your soul are old friends.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that when they cut you I bleed.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that we will never be afraid,
we will never hate
and we will never be silent
for life is ours!”
―
“Have Nerve, Stand Electric
(Sonnet 3274/ Song 15)
You cannot have a brain and chain it.
You cannot have a spine and bend it.
You cannot have a heart and divide it.
You cannot have a mind and dogmatize it.
You cannot claim wisdom and philosophize.
You cannot claim the sacred and sectarianize.
You cannot have eyes and not see through lies.
You cannot have ears and not hear the cries.
You cannot have arms and not stretch 'em wide.
You cannot have feet and not swim the tide.
You cannot have veins and not erupt at injustice.
You cannot have nerve cells and not stand electric.”
― Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer
(Sonnet 3274/ Song 15)
You cannot have a brain and chain it.
You cannot have a spine and bend it.
You cannot have a heart and divide it.
You cannot have a mind and dogmatize it.
You cannot claim wisdom and philosophize.
You cannot claim the sacred and sectarianize.
You cannot have eyes and not see through lies.
You cannot have ears and not hear the cries.
You cannot have arms and not stretch 'em wide.
You cannot have feet and not swim the tide.
You cannot have veins and not erupt at injustice.
You cannot have nerve cells and not stand electric.”
― Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer
