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A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing
“Let these women dance among your days and with your nights. Dream better lives.” ~Dr. DaMaris B. Hill
Caste
“Caste is insidious and therefore powerful because it is not hatred, it is not necessarily personal. It is the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place for so long that it looks like the natural order of things.” ~Isabel Wilkerson
Brave
“Whatever is different about you is what makes you amazing. Others will try to homogenize you for their own comfort level, because God forbid discomfort…Do not bend yourself to make others feel taller.” ~Rose McGowan
Seven Women and the Secret of Their Greatness
“Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible. ~Eric Metaxas
The Radium Girls
“The radium girls,” the governor announced, “deserve the utmost respect and admiration…because they battled a dishonest company, an indifferent industry, dismissive courts and the medical community in the face of certain death…” ~Kate Moore
Say Nothing
“Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole.” ~Patrick Radden Keefe
Small Great Things
“…racism isn’t just about hate. We all have biases, even if don’t think we do. It’s because racism is also about who has power…and who has access to it.” ~Jodi Picoult
Born a Crime
“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.” ~Trevor Noah
The Personal Librarian
“That Belle denied her true identity in order to protect herself and her family from racial persecution speaks not only to her time but also to ours… This is a compelling and important story.” ~Theresa Anne Fowler
Infidel
“There are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.” ~Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Animal Farm
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” ~George Orwell
I Am a Girl From Africa
“No one is equal, until we are ALL equal.” ~Elizabeth Nyamayaro
We Are Displaced
“I think it’s time that people update themselves, educate themselves, and inform themselves.” ~Malala Yousafzai
The Girl Who Smiled Beads
“It's strange, how you go from being a person who is away from home to a person with no home at all. The place that is supposed to want you has pushed you out. No other place takes you in. You are unwanted, by everyone. You are a refugee.” ~Clemantine Wamariya
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
The Indian Act, after over 140 years, continues to shape, control, and constrain the lives and opportunities of Indigenous Peoples, and is at the root of many stereotypes that persist.