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Hoffman, Abbie. Steal This Book. Pirate Editions, 1971.
Weil, Simone. "L'iliade ou le poeme de la force [The Iliad, or The Poem of Force]." Les Cahiers du Sud, 1940.
Weil, Simone. "The Iliad, or The Poem of Force." Simone Weil: An Anthology, translated by Sian Miles. Grove Press, 2000.
Lorde, Audre. "Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger." Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Crossing Press, 1984.
Sanger, Margaret. Woman and the New Race. Brentano's, 1920, ch. 8.
Lewinsky, Monica. Grand jury testimony. 6 Aug. 1998, Washington, DC, USA.
Jackson, George. Letter to Greg Armstrong. 10 June 1970.
The Sensible Man's View of Religion
Holmes, John H. The Sensible Man's View of Religion. Harper & Brothers, 1932, ch. 4.
Paine, Thomas [published anonymously]. Common Sense. Philadelphia: R. Bell, sect. 2.
Paine, Thomas. "Common Sense." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009, sect. 2.
Regarding the day in 1955 on which Ms. Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus for a white man. Widely considered the beginning of the US Civil Rights movement.
Parks, Rosa. Quoted in Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, written by David Garrow. William Morrow, 1988, ch. 1.
Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. Little, Brown and Company, 1994, pt. 11.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
On slave songs.
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845, ch. 2.
Douglass, Frederick. "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass." Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies, edited by Henry Louis Gates. Library of America, 1994, ch. 2.
Paine, Thomas [published anonymously]. Common Sense. Philadelphia: R. Bell, 1776.
Paine, Thomas. "Common Sense." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Truth, Sojourner. Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association. American Equal Rights Association meeting. 9 May 1867, New York, NY, USA.
Malcolm X. "The Ballot or the Bullet." 3 Apr. 1964, Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Malcolm X. "The Ballot or the Bullet." Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements, edited by George Breitman. Grove Press, 1994.