Kaur takes readers through her own riveting journey-as a brown girl growing up in California farmland finding her place in the world, as a young adult galvanized by the murders of Sikhs after 9/11, as a law student fighting injustices in American prisons and on Guant namo Bay, and as a woman trying to heal from her own experiences with sexual assault and police violence. Starting from that place of wonder, the world begins to change-it is a practice that can transform a relationship, a community, a culture, even a country. It enjoins us to see no stranger but instead look at others and say: You are part of me I do not yet know. Valarie Kaur describes revolutionary love as the call of our time, a radical, joyful practice that extends in three directions: to others, to our opponents, and to ourselves. Valarie Kaur's powerful memoir offers a reliable moral compass guided by revolutionary love.-Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow A renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker, and civil rights lawyer asks: How do we love in a time of rage? How do we fix a broken world while not breaking ourselves?
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