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When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.
- Clint Smith
#Country
#Forget
#Freedom
#Ground
#Life
The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don't wrestle with the fact that many of these were brilliant men, but they were also men with deep prejudices against people of color, against indigenous people, against women.
- Clint Smith
#Indigenous People
#Men
#People
#Women
Silence is the residue of fear.
- Clint Smith
#Fear
#Silence
The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of ethnicity, race, or social class - are more likely to make academic gains in mathematics, reading, and often science than they are in segregated ones.
- Clint Smith
#Impact
#Mathematics
#More
#Race
#Science
The most important and brave thing someone can do, I think, in the face of dehumanization, is to continue to assert their humanity.
- Clint Smith
#Brave
#Face
#Humanity
#Important
#Think
One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before.
- Clint Smith
#Engineering
#Poetry
#See
#Will
#World
My poetry is me trying to reconcile my own life and opportunities I've had with opportunities my students aren't given and how profoundly unfair that is.
- Clint Smith
#Life
#Me
#Own
#Poetry
#Trying
Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.
- Clint Smith
#Death Penalty
#Death
#Practice
#Support
History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures.
- Clint Smith
#Art
#Black
#History
#Political
#World
Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it will fail to meaningfully address the inequality that exists as a direct result of federal policy.
- Clint Smith
#Action
#Historical
#Inequality
#Result
My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs, so that they wouldn't make a memory of this skin.
- Clint Smith
#Lungs
#Me
#Memory
#Parents
#Skin
There is simply no better way to generate buzz for soccer in your country than having your team in the World Cup.
- Clint Smith
#Better
#Country
#Simply
#Way
#World
Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem from a disdain that suffering is happening at all.
- Clint Smith
#Empathy
#Happening
#Stem
#Suffering
#Us
When we say that black lives matter, it's not because others don't: it's simply because we must affirm that we are worthy of existing without fear, when so many things tell us we are not.
- Clint Smith
#Black
#Fear
#Matter
#Others
#Say
Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter.
- Clint Smith
#Chapter
#Just Because
#Oppression
#Us
To be clear, affirmative action is not, by itself, an adequate response to decades of systemic looting, but it has been an indispensible tool in inching us towards some semblance of a more equitable society.
- Clint Smith
#Action
#Clear
#More
#Society
#Us
Who has to have a soapbox when all you've ever needed is your voice?
- Clint Smith
#Ever
#Needed
#Voice
#Who
#Your
We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.
- Clint Smith
#Attention
#Listening
#Pay
#People
#Time
In an effort to create a culture within my classroom where students feel safe sharing the intimacies of their own silences, I have four core principles posted on the board that sits in the front of my class, which every student signs at the beginning of the year: read critically, write consciously, speak clearly, tell your truth.
- Clint Smith
#Beginning
#Culture
#Effort
#Feel
#Truth
This idea of shared humanity and the connections that we make with one another - that's what, in fact, makes life worth living.
- Clint Smith
#Humanity
#Life
#Living
#Make
#Worth
The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.
- Clint Smith
#Death
#Humanity
#Life
#Person
#Table
#Us
If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.
- Clint Smith
#Only
#Point
#Question
#Story
#Writer
School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration.
- Clint Smith
#Graduation
#Greater
#Higher
#School
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