Voices Against Injustice

The books, in order

1. 1

   Biographies and Memoirs · 14 min

   I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

   Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb

   When the state fails, whoever offers order, even a cruel one, gains ground, and that is why extremism grows where there is a vacuum.

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2. 2

   Biographies and Memoirs · 20 min

   Long Walk to Freedom

   Nelson Mandela

   Listening can strengthen authority when it helps you understand disagreements before choosing a direction.

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3. 3

   History · 19 min

   Killers of the Flower Moon

   David Grann

   Legal mechanisms created under the pretext of protecting vulnerable citizens become efficient tools of spoliation when they strip away the autonomy of the very people they are meant to safeguard.

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4. 4

   Economy and Society · 21 min

   Structural Racism

   Silvio Almeida

   A classification may have no biological basis and still produce material consequences when it guides how people are treated.

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5. 5

   Economy and Society · 18 min

   On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

   Timothy Snyder

   Laws and courts only remain standing as long as citizens actively choose to defend them in the real world.

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   Psychology · 17 min

   The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

   Philip Zimbardo

   In the classic studies on the bystander effect, the more people there are around an emergency, the more each one tends to wait for someone else to step in.

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7. 7

   Psychology · 16 min

   Obedience to Authority

   Stanley Milgram

   No one is asked to commit the extreme act all at once: the path consists of small steps, each just a little worse than the last.

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   Philosophy · 18 min

   Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

   Hannah Arendt

   The greatest threat to human coexistence often comes not from deliberate cruelty, but from the inability to imagine the suffering of others.

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   Economy and Society · 17 min

   Women, Race & Class

   Angela Y. Davis

   A victory that benefits only one group can leave out the people who needed it most.

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