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'The best book about racism I’ve ever read. Powerful, passionate, challenging, and, like the author’s fast bowling, at times very uncomfortable. I learned a lot & it made me think a lot.'
— Piers Morgan, TV presenter and journalist
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'One of the most important [books] of the year, and certainly among the most powerful... If anything will change the way we see the world it is this - the sports book of the year.'
— Roger Alton
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'This powerful book...recounts unsparing stories of prejudice and injustice, but the best passages are when Holding writes from the heart.'
— Matt Dickinson
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'Holding writes of his personal guilt at rolling with the racist punches throughout his career... The language is raw, his observations unsparing, but there is no more important sports book this year.'
— Ben Taylor
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'This amazing book'
— Chris Evans
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'The outstanding book by a mile'
— Danny Kelly
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'The most important book by a sportsperson you may ever read. But calling it a sports book would not remotely do it justice... Why We Kneel, How We Rise is powerful precisely because, even after confronting the horror on a scale that makes your blood boil, it tells us that there is still, and always will be, hope.'
— Nakul Pande
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'[A] meticulously researched jeremiad, which details centuries of prejudice.'
— Simon Kuper and Murad Ahmed
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'Shocking and at times difficult to read... The relentless accrual of detail tracks a process of dehumanisation of the black race...and it presents an inarguable case. Holding and his co-writer Ed Hawkins have taken a vast and complex subject and made it human.'
— Jon Hotten
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'An incredible book. This tome straddles sport, sociology, anthropology and global politics, and holds a mirror to humanity, warts and all... It is remarkable to know that he achieved all that he aspired to do. This conscience-stirrer of a book will defy time. This book is a classic, one that will make you aware that inequality is a horrific reality and it is time to change that.'
— K.C.Vijaya Kumar
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'A sober, densely researched account of racial discrimination'
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