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    We Are the Change: Words of Inspiration from Civil Rights Leaders
    We Are the Change: Words of Inspiration from Civil Rights Leaders
    We Are the Change: Words of Inspiration from Civil Rights Leaders
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    We Are the Change: Words of Inspiration from Civil Rights Leaders

    By Harry Belafonte

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    This collection of illustrated activist quotes is “a heady mix of visual and verbal inspiration, nearly every page rewarding slow, thoughtful attention”(Kirkus Reviews).
     
    Sixteen award-winning children’s book artists illustrate the civil rights quotations that inspire them in this stirring and beautiful book. Featuring an introduction by Harry Belafonte, words from Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelou, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., among others, this inspirational collection sets a powerful example for generations of young leaders to come. It includes illustrations by Selina Alko, Alina Chau, Lisa Congdon, Emily Hughes, Molly Idle, Juana Medina, Innosanto Nagara, Christopher Silas Neal, John Parra, Brian Pinkney, Greg Pizzoli, Sean Qualls, Dan Santat, Shadra Strickland, Melissa Sweet, and Raúl the Third.
     
    “A snapshot of inspiration for social change.” —School Library Journal
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 7, 2019
    ISBN9781452170459
    We Are the Change: Words of Inspiration from Civil Rights Leaders

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      We Are the Change - Harry Belafonte

      If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it.

      —Sonia Sotomayor

      Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

      —Helen Keller

      WITH ART FROM:

      Selina Alko

      Alina Chau

      Lisa Congdon

      Emily Hughes

      Molly Idle

      Juana Medina

      Innosanto Nagara

      Christopher Silas Neal

      John Parra

      Brian Pinkney

      Greg Pizzoli

      Sean Qualls

      Dan Santat

      Shadra Strickland

      Melissa Sweet

      Raúl the Third

      Illustrations copyright © 2019 by Selina Alko, Alina Chau, Lisa Congdon, Emily Hughes, Molly Idle, Juana Medina, Innosanto Nagara, Christopher Silas Neal, John Parra, Brian Pinkney, Greg Pizzoli, Sean Qualls, Dan Santat, Shadra Strickland, Melissa Sweet, and Raúl Gonzalez.

      Page 11: Still I Rise from And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems by Maya Angelou, copyright © 1978 by Maya Angelou. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

      Page 15: Excerpt from 1957 sermon Loving Your Enemies reprinted by arrangement with The Heirs to the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr., c/o Writers House as agent for the proprietor New York, NY. Copyright © 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. © renewed 1991 Coretta Scott King.

      Page 21: Excerpt from Paul Robeson by Gwendolyn Brooks, originally published in Family Pictures. Reprinted by consent of Brooks Permissions.

      Page 22: Excerpt from My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor, copyright © 2013 by Sonia Sotomayor. Used by permission of Alfred

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