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Book Cover for: Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.: notebook with 120+ Pages of 6"x 9", Halimi Publishing

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.: notebook with 120+ Pages of 6"x 9"

Halimi Publishing
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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller Today we celebrate the life of Helen Keller who boldly advocated for disability rights, women, and the working class.

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Book Cover for: By Any Means Necessary, Malcolm X

By Any Means Necessary

Malcolm X
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“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary https://t.co/7ySy2ItLFs

Paperback, 1992

$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II: The History of the Controversial Decision to Relocate Citizens Across the West Coast, Charles River

The Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II: The History of the Controversial Decision to Relocate Citizens Across the West Coast

Charles River
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Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu was an American civil rights activist who resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. https://t.co/SOdxgYaNZ6

Paperback, 2017

$8.14$4.07 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler
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“All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.” ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower Happy birthday to Octavia Butler, who helped us all imagine new futures!

Paperback, 2019

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Optimism: An Essay, Helen Keller

Optimism: An Essay

Helen Keller
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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller Today we celebrate the life of Helen Keller who boldly advocated for disability rights, women, and the working class.

Paperback, 2010

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Heads of Families at the Second Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1800: Vermont, U S Bureau of the Census

Heads of Families at the Second Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1800: Vermont

U S Bureau of the Census
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Slavery still exists in the United States. In the midterms, voters chose to end the practice in Tennessee, Alabama, Oregon, and Vermont. ⬇️

Paperback, 2011

$41.25$20.63 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Remember: The Journey to School Integration, Toni Morrison

Remember: The Journey to School Integration

Toni Morrison
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“I tell my students, When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else,” said novelist Toni Morrison. “If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”

Hardcover, 2004

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Color Purple, Alice Walker

The Color Purple

Alice Walker
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Alice Walker, who is best known for writing The Color Purple, was also a lifelong activist. She taught us that “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” #BHM https://t.co/J8AnIHDMbj

Paperback, 2019

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: In a Single Garment of Destiny: A Global Vision of Justice, Martin Luther King

In a Single Garment of Destiny: A Global Vision of Justice

Martin Luther King
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

Paperback, 2014

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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