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> [When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-smith/when-seconds-count-the-cops-are-just-minutes-away/)

[Clint Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-smith/)

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## More by Clint Smith

> [Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-smith/until-affirmative-action-is-described-and-understood-as-one-mechanism/)

[Clint Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-smith/)

> [If our principles are only our principles when it is convenient for us, when they align with our visceral emotional responses, then they are,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-smith/if-our-principles-are-only-our-principles-when-it-is-convenient-for/)

[Clint Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-smith/)

> [The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree in private…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-smith/the-u-s-prison-system-over-all-disproportionately-affects-black-and/)

[Clint Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-smith/)

> [America's economy cannot be disentangled from the free labor that built it, just as America's culture cannot be unbound from the black artists who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-smith/america-s-economy-cannot-be-disentangled-from-the-free-labor-that/)

[Clint Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-smith/)

> [In sixth grade, my status as a Boy Scout was not something I went out of my way to share. In fact, I spent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-smith/in-sixth-grade-my-status-as-a-boy-scout-was-not-something-i-went-out/)

[Clint Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-smith/)

> [The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few will admit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-smith/the-history-of-racial-violence-in-our-country-is-both-omnipresent-and/)

[Clint Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-smith/)

> [If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-smith/if-you-carry-a-gun-people-will-call-you-paranoid-that-s-ridiculous-if/)

[Clint Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-smith/)

> [When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an impact on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-smith/when-the-power-of-private-prisons-is-diminished-so-too-is-their/)

[Clint Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-smith/)

> [Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-smith/systemic-racism-always-takes-a-toll-whether-it-be-by-bullet-or-by/)

[Clint Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-smith/)

> [One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-smith/one-does-not-read-a-poem-by-gwendolyn-brooks-with-hopes-that-it-will/)

[Clint Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-smith/)

> [Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-smith/education-is-a-human-right-a-recognition-of-dignity-that-each-person/)

[Clint Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-smith/)

> [Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-smith/preparing-oneself-for-the-possibility-of-confronting-racism-triggers/)

[Clint Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-smith/)

> [In my home, guns were not something to be earned or celebrated. Water guns and Nerf guns were not allowed outside. B.B. guns were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-smith/in-my-home-guns-were-not-something-to-be-earned-or-celebrated-water/)

[Clint Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-smith/)

> [If you're not shootin', you should be loadin'. If you're not loadin, you should be movin', if you're not movin', someone's gonna cut your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-smith/if-you-re-not-shootin-you-should-be-loadin-if-you-re-not-loadin-you/)

[Clint Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-smith/)

> [If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-smith/if-you-only-hear-one-side-of-the-story-at-some-point-you-have-to/)

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