Chapter Quote 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Clint Smith

Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot.

— 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…

— Clint Smith

Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded.

— Clint Smith

Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being.

— Clint Smith