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Resist : 40 profiles of ordinary people who rose up against tyranny and injustice Cover Image Book Book

Resist : 40 profiles of ordinary people who rose up against tyranny and injustice / Veronica Chambers ; foreword bySenator Cory Booker ; illustrated by Paul Ryding.

Chambers, Veronica, (author.). Ryding, Paul, (illustrator.).

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"A nonfiction collection of profiles of prominent activists for young readers."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062796264 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: 239 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Subject: Social reformers > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Political activists > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Revolutionaries > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Social change > History > Juvenile literature.

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Fort St. James Public Library J 303.48 CHA (Text) 35196001029714 Juvenile Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
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Foreword 1(8)
Senator Cory Booker
Joan of Arc
9(6)
#resist year 1429
#Resist lesson
Ask yourself: What was I born to do?
Martin Luther
15(6)
#Resist year 1517
#Resist lesson
One voice can shake the earth
Galileo Galilei
21(6)
#Resist year 1609
#Resist lesson
Ask questions. There is no end to what is waiting to be discovered
Samuel Adams
27(6)
#Resist year 1773
#Resist lesson
The steadiness of commitment can do more in the long term than unsustainable sparks
Frederick Douglass
33(6)
#Resist year 1841
#Resist lesson
It is just one word, but these six letters are enough to start a revolution: Enough
Sojourner Truth
39(4)
#Resist year 1850
#Resist lesson
We all have the power to speak up and speak out
Susan B. Anthony
43(6)
#Resist year 1853
#Resist lesson
Sisterhood can fuel a revolution
Lozen the Apache Warrior
49(4)
#Resist year 1860
#Resist lesson
Your most powerful weapon is your mind
Sitting Bull
53(6)
#Resist year 1865
#Resist lesson
The first step is to stand your ground
Queen Liliuokalani
59(8)
#Resist year 1881
#Resist lesson
Do not let fear of failure prevent you from trying
Lucretia Mott
67(6)
#Resist year 1883
#Resist lesson
The books we read can change our lives--and the world
Ida B. Wells
73(6)
#Resist year 1892
#Resist lesson
Injustice thrives in silence. When we speak and write our truth, things change
Mohandas Gandhi
79(6)
#Resist year 1906
#Resist lesson
You don't have to use your fists
Emiliano Zapata
85(6)
#Resist year 1911
#Resist lesson
We must speak for the voiceless
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
91(4)
#Resist year 1933
#Resist lesson
The instinct to run away is natural. It's how we respond to that instinct that defines our courage
Chiune Sugihara
95(4)
#Resist year 1940
#Resist lesson
Sometimes you must break the rules to do what's right
Hedy Lamarr
99(4)
#Resist year 1942
#Resist lesson
Every solution begins with the question "What if?"
Nelson Mandela
103(4)
#Resist year 1944
#Resist lesson
We do not need to see ourselves as heroes to change the world
Oskar Schindler
107(4)
#Resist year 1945
#Resist lesson
Whoever saves one life saves the world entire
The Dalai Lama
111(6)
#Resist year 1959
#Resist lesson
The people who want to do good are the real majority. Troublemakers make up just a handful of all the people in the world
Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez
117(4)
#Resist year 1962
#Resist lesson
Honor the hands that harvest your crops
Fannie Lou Hamer
121(6)
#Resist year 1962
#Resist lesson
Our vote is one of the most valuable things we own
Rachel Carson
127(6)
#Resist year 1962
#Resist lesson
Earth is our home. When we fight for nature, we fight for ourselves
John Lewis
133(6)
#Resist year 1963
#Resist lesson
Find a way--to get in the way
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm x
139(8)
#Resist year 1965
#Resist lesson
In our differences, we can spur each other toward a common cause
Miriam Makeba
147(6)
#Resist year 1969
#Resist lesson
The people who make art, the people who sing songs, they give hope and sustenance to the resistance
Harvey Milk
153(6)
#Resist year 1972
#Resist lesson
Oppression isolates us. Resistance unites us
Wangari Maathai
159(4)
#Resist year 1977
#Resist lesson
In forestry, as in life, there are too many people cutting and not enough people planting
Archbishop Oscar Romero
163(4)
#Resist year 1980
#Resist lesson
Our silence does not protect us
Malala Yousafzai
167(6)
#Resist year 2009
#Resist lesson
You are not too young
Janet Mock
173(4)
#Resist year 2011
#Resist lesson
Freedom must be inclusive
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
177(4)
#Resist year 2013
#Resist lesson
We can't take for granted the rights we cherish. They need continual protecting
Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi
181(6)
#BlackLivesMatter
#Resist year 2013
#Resist lesson
Injustice need not render you powerless
Anastasia Somoza
187(4)
#Resist year 2016
#Resist lesson
The world may look at you and say, "You can't." You must know in your heart that you can
Greta Thunberg
191(6)
#Resist year 2018
#Resist lesson
Take the future into your own hands
Colin Kaepernick
197(6)
#Resist year 2016
#Resist lesson
Stand strong in your beliefs, and speak up, even when others seek to silence you
Stacey Abrams
203(6)
#Resist year 2018
#Resist lesson
"When we show up, act boldly, and practice the best ways to be wrong, we fail forward. No matter where we end up, we've grown from where we began."
Laverne Cox
209(6)
#Resist year 2013
#Resist lesson
"One thing I would wish for America [is] spaces where we have real gender freedom, where we create spaces of gender self-determination, where we don't police people's genders or we don't tell people that they're not supposed to act a certain way."
Ruby Bridges
215(6)
#Resist year 1960
#Resist lesson
Bravery is taking the first steps toward change
March for Our Lives
221(8)
#Resist year 2018
#Resist lesson
Always be ready to march again
Afterword 229(6)
Samantha Fuentes
Activist and Student
Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School
Learn More about the Power of Resistance 235

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