Parable of the Sower (BOOK REVIEW)

I've put off writing a review for this book for a while- honestly I had no idea how to put into words how much this book moved and impacted me in so many ways in the past year.
Whenever anyone asks me for a good introspective science fiction book that speaks about many issues in our society today I point them in the direction of Parable of the Sower.
I read this book for a third year english speculative fiction class about a year ago and the book has not left my mind since. At first I thought I didn't like it but the more it stayed in my head the more I began to appreciate the beauty in the pain of Parable of the Sower.
I had been reading purely for enjoyment at the time and didn't take the time to consider books that disturbed and intrigued me like this one did.
Octavia E. Butler channels a divine story that balances religion, morality, dystopian fiction, grief, pain, love, and all of what makes us human and what takes our inherit nature given humanity away from us.
“There is no end
To what a living world
Will demand of you.”

In my province a couple months ago there was a protest for fair wages for the school district, and instead of changing the wages- payment was cut off and the media portrayed the protesters as violent and evil when they were really just standing there asking for livable wages.
When I was at the protest with my mom who works on the school board I told her about this book, and how the governments reaction reminded me of the corporations in Parable of the Sower and she was really moved by what this story was about.
Parable of the Sower sets the bar for sci-fi and fantasy at a high level with masterful worldbuilding and phenomenal character work that leaves nothing to be desired but a happy ending for our characters.

Quotes I loved:
Unite—
Or be divided,
robbed,
ruled,
killed
By those who see you as prey.
Embrace diversity
Or be destroyed.”

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how beautiful that glint of water was through the trees.”
“When apparent stability disintegrates,
As it must--
God is Change--
People tend to give in
To fear and depression,
To need and greed.
When no influence is strong enough
To unify people
They divide.
They struggle,
One against one,
Group against group,
For survival, position, power.
They remember old hates and generate new ones,
The create chaos and nurture it.
They kill and kill and kill,
Until they are exhausted and destroyed,
Until they are conquered by outside forces,
Or until one of them becomes
A leader
Most will follow,
Or a tyrant
Most fear.”

“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.”