Culture Quote by Clint Smith

“So often, our sporting allegiances are shaped by family tradition, passed down like heirlooms.” quote by Clint Smith — Download Open image

“So often, our sporting allegiances are shaped by family tradition, passed down like heirlooms.”

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Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it…

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If our principles are only our principles when it is convenient for us, when they align with our visceral emotional responses, then they are,…

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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…

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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…

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In sixth grade, my status as a Boy Scout was not something I went out of my way to share. In fact, I spent most of my adolescence attempting to keep it a secret from those who might use it as a source of derision. The off-brown collared shirt and forest-green sash were not something I would have ever been…

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The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few will admit…

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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…

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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…

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

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One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because…

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

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

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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of…

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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

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The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture.

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