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Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

by Kelly Hayes

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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

by Brian Goldstone (Goodreads Author)

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Mar 11, 2026 06:19PM

Gus’s brow and mouth softened. “When you love someone,” he said haltingly, “. . . you want to make this world look different for them. To give all the ugly stuff meaning, and amplify the good. That’s what you do. For your readers. For me. ...more

The Briar Club

by Kate Quinn

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Starfish

by Lisa Fipps

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“All work has dignity. No job, when done freely, is ignoble.”
― James Martin, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life

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“Without the Jesuits you wouldn’t be enjoying your gin and tonic.”
― James Martin, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life

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“This is the foundation of all sin: the lie that God is untrustworthy, the lie that God is not altogether loving and that he doesn't have our best interests in mind.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Is God to Blame?: Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Suffering

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“The iPhone 2 led to the 3, but I didn’t get the 4 or 5 because I’m holding out for the 7, which, I’ve heard on good authority, can also be used as a Taser. This will mean I’ll have just one less thing to carry around.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

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“To not try, to give up on the possibility that we can make a difference, can make the difference, is to give up on our past, on our complicated, difficult, but victorious past. Donald Trump is not our final, or ultimate, problem. The problem is, instead, allowing hopelessness to steal our joyful triumph before we work hard enough to achieve it.”
― Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

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