"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."—Henry David Thoreau

Find out about our new edition of #Walden, with an introduction and annotations by Bill McKibben, at beacon.org/walden

#WednesdayWisdom #Thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #walden #books #billmckibben #igquotes #bookquotes #booklove #bookworm #booknerd #beaconpress #amreading

"Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again."—Thich Nhat Hanh, from The Miracle of Mindfulness
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#TuesdayMeditation #Mindfulness

"Why we endeavor collectively to write a book or paint a canvas or write a symphony…is to understand who we are as human beings, and it's that shared knowledge that somehow helps us to survive."—Richard Blanco in Writing Hard Stories

Ashlyn Edwards, one of our summer publicity interns raves about Lyn Mikel Brown's Powered By Girl:

"For me and many other girls who grew up in the early- to mid-2000s, there were no major feminist role models.... Education professor and activist Lyn Mikel Brown's Powered by Girl: A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists is ESSENTIAL READING FOR THIS LOST GENERATION OF FEMINISTS."

#PoweredByGirl #feminism #activism #feministreads #girlpower

Happy publication day to Lyn Mikel Brown and 'Powered By Girl!'
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Girls should be supported in creating their own movements on their own terms. In Powered By Girl, explore the power of intergenerational activist work. Brown examines how girls have embraced activism and also provides guide for adults who want to support their organizing.
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#poweredbygirl #intergenerationalactivism #feminism #mustread #newbooks #girlactivism #activism

Happy birthday, Sister Sonia Sanchez!
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Let me wear the day
Well so when it reaches you
You will enjoy it.
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A birthday tribute: bit.ly/sistersonia
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#poetry #soniasanchez #haiku #BaddDDDsoniasanchez #blackartsmovement #BaddDDD

Now on sale! Artemis Joukowsky's 'Defying the Nazis' tells the story of the Sharps who undertake dangerous rescue and relief missions across war-torn Europe, saving the lives of countless refugees, political dissidents, and Jews on the eve of WWII. The companion documentary film, directed by Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky, premieres on PBS on September 20th!
#SharpsWar #SharpsWarPBS #DefyingtheNazis #UUSC #UUA #WorldWar2 #WWII #socialjustice

"When we are no longer able to change a situation . . . we are challenged to change ourselves." Remembering Viktor Frankl, who died on this day in 1997.



#ViktorFrankl #MansSearchforMeaning #inspirationalquotes

"We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world." Happy birthday to Howard Zinn, who would have turned 94 today.

#HowardZinn #socialchange #socialjustice #activism #teacher #protest #nonviolence

#tdih: Alex Haley's "Roots" was published on this day in 1976. The book and miniseries (which debuted in January 1977) contributed greatly to the growing interest around African origins and genealogy.

#blackhistory #genealogy #slavery #ushistory

"If we want young girls to engage in feminist activism, we have an obligation to reach out to them, and make their transition into the movement both easy and fun. We don‘t want to become another kind of barrier, another kind of force girls come up against.”--Lynn Mikel Brown

Powered By Girl goes on sale September 6th! #PoweredByGirl #feminism #activism #girlactivism #intergenerational

On this day in 1924, the great James Baldwin was born.

“Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves: the loss of our own identity is the process we pay for our annulment of his.” —from his essay "Many Thousands Gone," in Notes of a Native Son

His words still ring true today. ‪#‎WeNeedJamesBaldwin

Photo: Allan warren CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

“I am by myself, but never alone. Judy, though hidden, remains completely woven into the fabric of my being—entwined with threads both bright and invisible, connecting me to her and to all we‘ve shared, all we‘ve been and are to each other.”

A place like Mount Auburn can help us save ourselves as we protect the increasingly fragile balance of birds, grasses, trees, water, and air, and the breathing groves of forest.

"This book contains most of the poems written in the past forty years that I wish to stand by."--Jay Parini from his note in 'New and Collected Poems,' his first book in over a decade. On sale at bookstores everywhere today!

“Occasionally, I‘d notice I‘d lost a whole day to a book; even when I stepped outside for a walk, I was still having conversations with the characters in my mind.”
—Howard Axelrod, from The Point of Vanishing

"We refuse to be your mammies, nannies, aunties, uncles, girls, handmaidens any longer."--Edith Barksdale Sloan