I've been a follower of Arsenal Football Club since I was ten years old. — Clint Smith Arsenal Copy Share Image
Sometimes sports serves as a reprieve from politics, and sometimes it serves as an extension of it. — Clint Smith Extension Copy Share Image
I think about the history of racism in this country all the time. — Clint Smith Country Copy Share Image
Who has to have a soapbox when all you've ever needed is your voice? — Clint Smith Needed Copy Share Image
Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it! — Clint Smith Beware Copy Share Image
It's incredibly important to understand history... when it comes to inequality. — Clint Smith History Copy Share Image
Older prisoners are more expensive for prisons to house because they tend to require more health care over time. — Clint Smith Health Copy Share Image
My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn't steal the… — Clint Smith Advice Copy Share Image
Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem… — Clint Smith Disdain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Until lawmakers can disentangle property taxes from public education, inequalities - perpetuated by the Supreme Court and Congress - will persist. — Clint Smith Court Copy Share Image
To be clear, affirmative action is not, by itself, an adequate response to decades of systemic looting, but it has been an… — Clint Smith Action Copy Share Image
Our entire lives, we're inundated with media and messaging that tells us that to be incarcerated is to be criminal and to… — Clint Smith Bad Copy Share Image
The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few… — Clint Smith Country Copy Share Image
America's economy cannot be disentangled from the free labor that built it, just as America's culture cannot be unbound from the black… — Clint Smith America Copy Share Image
The sling is to a rifle what the holster is to a pistol. If you have a sling, chances are you will… — Clint Smith Amendment Copy Share Image
Each holiday season, as family members arrive and couches are unfolded, my household settles into a palpable nostalgia. Poorly designed photo albums… — Clint Smith Brotherhood Copy Share Image
When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each… — Clint Smith Effort Copy Share Image
Schools are the single largest lever of mobility in this country. When we commit to creating and enforcing laws that acknowledge the… — Clint Smith Country Copy Share Image
Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized… — Clint Smith Action Copy Share Image
To operate with the aspiration of color-blindness in a country whose central operating mechanism for centuries has been race belies the logic… — Clint Smith Black Copy Share Image
When the residue of oppression and fear are compounded over time, when the historical precedents of policing and discrimination manifest themselves over… — Clint Smith Black people Copy Share Image
After high school, I earned a scholarship to play Division I soccer at a small school in North Carolina, but I didn't… — Clint Smith High school Copy Share Image
“I thought about how Juneteenth is a holiday that inspires so much celebration, born from circumstances imbued with so much tragedy. Enslavers… — Clint Smith African american history Copy Share Image
“Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the… — Clint Smith African americans Copy Share Image
“I watched these young people read to the audience parts of history that placed our country in context. I felt, in that… — Clint Smith African american history Copy Share Image
“Donna and Grace and so many people—specifically white people—often have understood slavery, and those held in its grip, only in abstract terms.… — Clint Smith African americans Copy Share Image
Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot. — Clint Smith Always Copy Share Image
Read critically, write consciously; speak clearly; tell your truth! — Clint Smith Books Copy Share Image
Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed. — Clint Smith Death Copy Share Image
“To deny the full humanity of others is to deny it within ourselves.” — Clint Smith Deny Copy Share Image
Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded. — Clint Smith Dignity Copy Share Image
New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud. — Clint Smith Grief Copy Share Image
