Chapter Quote by Clint Smith Download Open image “Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter.” — Clint Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chapter Disappear Just Oppression Us
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
As we blaze it up we see clear to progression. We no deal with oppression. — Julian Marley Copy Share Image
If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved. — Charles Caleb Colton 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 communities, it… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
If our principles are only our principles when it is convenient for us, when they align with our visceral emotional responses, then they are,… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
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… — Clint Smith 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 artists who… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
In sixth grade, my status as a Boy Scout was not something I went out of my way to share. In fact, I spent… — Clint Smith 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 will admit… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
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… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
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… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick. — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
“I’d like the last chapter of my life to be like a good read that you enjoyed to the end and were sorry to… — Michael Lipsey Copy Share Image
My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool,… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I believe it is time for me to begin a new chapter in my life by spending more time with my family and exploring… — Mike Ross Copy Share Image
My first child is going to be the oldest sibling to the next kid, and that may change with each and every year. I'm… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
Fraternities breed leaders. That, at least, is what most any chapter website will tell you, in not so many words - and the message… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word. For it… — Tarun Betala Copy Share Image
Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“What happens in my next chapter depends on whether I wake up feeling creative or murderous.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
