pickStart Now! by Chelsea Clinton (2018) is an informative nonfiction book with telltale facts about the world and what humans can do to make a positive impact. This book covers topics such as access to healthy food and clean water, endangered species, preventing sickness, and stopping bullying. This book can help children to understand the world better and give them ways that they can help make the world a better place for all people.
This is a fun nonfiction book filled with facts, stories, and inspirations for how to change the world one step at a time! This would be a great book to read on earth day!
“Clean, safe water means water that doesn't have anything in it that can make us sick.“
1. I made a Kamala spread in my journal! 💙
2. My husband brought me back a little pot from CO 🪴😂
3. I started a Libro.fm membership since I've been reading most of my books by audiobook lately
4. Free drink from my favorite local cafe
5. Much needed rain storms 🌧️
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pickWhat a fantastic book. So incredibly endearing and infuriating all at the same time!
pickThe author came into this work knowing what he wanted to do, but he didn‘t realize how hard it would be, or that it would change his life even more than those he served. This book isn‘t just about the work of Equal Justice Initiative; it‘s about how we treat others, and the vision of systems of compassion, instead of systems of oppression. The story of Walter McMillian is featured heavily in this book, but there are also stories of other ⬇️
There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can‘t otherwise see; you hear things you can‘t otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us. What would happen if we just⬇️
America‘s prisons have become warehouses for the mentally ill. Mass incarceration has been largely fueled by misguided drug policy and excessive sentencing, but the internment of hundreds of thousands of poor and mentally ill people has been driving force in achieving our record levels of imprisonment. It‘s created unprecedented problems.
Capital punishment means them without the capital get the punishment.
