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When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Against Aside Astonishing Athletic Cup Each Effort Even Focus Game Germans Historic Interests Me Mexico Old Only Other Over Portugal Push Resilient Run Soccer Team Thirteen Unlucky Victory Win World World Cup Years

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The moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the work of activists who have decried the social stratification brought about by our prison systems.

~Clint Smith

Topics: About Activists Acts Attention Been Brought Courageous Investigative Journalism Moral Our Prison Prisons Private Scholarship Social Systems Who Work

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In an effort to create a culture within my classroom where students feel safe sharing the intimacies of their own silences, I have four core principles posted on the board that sits in the front of my class, which every student signs at the beginning of the year: read critically, write consciously, speak clearly, tell your truth.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Beginning Board Class Classroom Clearly Core Create Critically Culture Effort Every Feel Four Front Own Posted Principles Read Safe Sharing Signs Silences Speak Student Students Tell Truth Where Which Within Write Year Your

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The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader, more universal truth.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Broader Does Lie Literature More Particular Power Resonance Speaks Truth Universal Way

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Advocating for affirmative action through the prism of diversity may be more politically palatable, but it will inevitably yield insufficient results.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Action Advocating Affirmative Affirmative Action Diversity Inevitably Insufficient May More Politically Prism Results Through Will Yield

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Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Because Chapter Decided Disappear Just Just Because Oppression Teach Us You

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The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don't wrestle with the fact that many of these were brilliant men, but they were also men with deep prejudices against people of color, against indigenous people, against women.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Against Also Brilliant Color Deep Fact False Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Idols Indigenous Indigenous People Many Men People Prejudices Presidents Raise Sort Up Were Women Wrestle

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The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of ethnicity, race, or social class - are more likely to make academic gains in mathematics, reading, and often science than they are in segregated ones.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Academic Class Clear Consistently Ethnicity Found Gains Impact Integrated Irrespective Likely Make Mathematics More Often Race Reading Researchers Schools Science Segregated Social Social Class Students Than

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A cage that allows someone to walk around inside of it is still a cage.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Around Cage Inside Someone Still Walk

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To be clear, affirmative action is not, by itself, an adequate response to decades of systemic looting, but it has been an indispensible tool in inching us towards some semblance of a more equitable society.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Action Adequate Affirmative Affirmative Action Been Clear Decades Equitable Itself More Response Society Some Tool Towards Us

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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