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Anthony, Susan B. "Social Purity." Dime lecture course. 14 Mar. 1875, Grand Opera House, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Tutu, Desmond. "Bill Moyers Talks with Archbishop Desmond Tutu." Bill Moyers Journal. PBS, 27 Apr. 1999.

Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it.

Malala Yousafzai

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Yousafzai, Malala. "Malala Yousafzai: The Girls' Hero." Glamour Magazine, 30 Oct. 2013.

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Keller, Helen. Optimism. T. Y. Crowell and Company, 1903, pt. 2.

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Keller, Helen. "Optimism." The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays. Dover Publications, 2010, pt. 2.

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Malcolm X. "Prospects for Freedom in 1965." Militant Labor Forum. 7 Jan. 1965, Palm Gardens, New York City, NY, USA.

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Malcolm X. "Prospects for Freedom in 1965." Malcolm X Speaks, edited by George Breitman. Grove Press, 1994.

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Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Hearsts's International Library, 1914.

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Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Vintage Classics, 2018.

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Steinem, Gloria. "Keynote Speech." Women and Power: Connecting Across the Generations Conference. 11 Sept. 2009, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY, USA.

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Paine, Thomas. Rights of man. Part the second. London: J. S. Jordan, 1792.

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Paine, Thomas. "Rights of Man Part the second." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Carson, Rachel. Letter to Dorothy Friedman. 28 June 1958.

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Keller, Helen. Helen Keller: Selected Writings, edited by Kim E. Nielsen. New York University Press, 2005, pt. 2, ch. 16. Originally from Letter to an English-Woman-Suffragist published in The Manchester (England) Advertiser, 3 Mar. 1911.

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Sontag, Susan "Against Interpretation." Against Interpretation. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.

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Davis, Angela. "Ferguson Reminds Us of the Importance of a Global Context." Interviewed by Frank Barat. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Haymarket Books, 2016.

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Paine, Thomas. The American Crisis: Number 1. Philadelphia: Styner and Cist, 1776.

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Paine, Thomas. "The American Crisis, Number I, December 19, 1776." Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution. Library of America, 2015.

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.

Thurgood Marshall

Furman v. Georgia

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Marshall, Thurgood. United States, Supreme Court. Furman v. Georgia. United States Reports, vol. 408, 29 June 1972, pp. 238-250. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/408/238/.

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Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin, 1962, ch. 8.

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Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Hearsts's International Library, 1914.

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Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Vintage Classics, 2018.

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Paine, Thomas. The American Crisis: Number 1. Philadelphia: Styner and Cist, 1776.

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Paine, Thomas. "The American Crisis, Number I, December 19, 1776." Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution. Library of America, 2015.

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Brittain, Vera. The Rebel Passion. Fellowship Publications/Allen & Unwin, 1964.

We have to begin to have a conversation that incorporates a vision of love with a vision of outrage.

Ruby Sales

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Sales, Ruby. "Where Does It Hurt?" Interviewed by Krista Tippett. On Being. WNYC, 15 Sept 2016.

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Lorde, Audre. "Poetry Is Not a Luxury." Chrysalis, 1977.