“it would be nice to be something in a museum one day because that’s what I’ve been told means you’ve lived a… — Clint Smith Life 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
A cage that allows someone to walk around inside of it is still a cage. — Clint Smith Around 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
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
In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the… — Clint Smith Choice Copy Share Image
We tend to think of racism as this interpersonal verbal or physical abuse, when in truth, that is only one way that… — Clint Smith Abuse Copy Share Image
The moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the… — Clint Smith Attention Copy Share Image
“I asked [my grandfather] if there would ever be an America in which white Americans were not actively working to keep themselves… — Clint Smith America Copy Share Image
“do you know what it means for your existence to be defined by someone else’s intentions?” — Clint Smith Life 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
Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to… — Clint Smith Beats Copy Share Image
I think about the history of racism in this country all the time. — Clint Smith Country Copy Share Image
The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don't wrestle… — Clint Smith Deep 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
My childhood closet was ornamented with U.S. jerseys of World Cups spanning the nineties and two-thousands - some of my favorite memories… — Clint Smith Best 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
“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to… — Clint Smith African americans Copy Share Image
The benefits of prison education go beyond lowering recidivism rates and increasing post-release employment. It can also rekindle a sense of purpose… — Clint Smith Confidence 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
'A Talk to Teachers' showed me that a teacher's work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical and, instead, confront the… — Clint Smith Pretense Copy Share Image
The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader,… — Clint Smith Books Copy Share Image
I want to live in a world where my son will not be presumed guilty the moment he is born, where a… — Clint Smith Born Copy Share Image
Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter. — Clint Smith Chapter Copy Share Image
