Author: Clint Smith

Quotes

Until lawmakers can disentangle property taxes from public education, inequalities - perpetuated by the Supreme Court and Congress - will persist.

Until lawmakers can disentangle property taxes from public education, inequalities - perpetuated by the Supreme Court and Congress - will persist.

- Clint Smith

The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.

The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.

- Clint Smith

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

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

- Clint Smith

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

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

- Clint Smith

Silence is the residue of fear.

Silence is the residue of fear.

- Clint Smith

Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.

Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.

- 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 public and private prisons alike.

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 public and private prisons alike.

- Clint Smith

This idea of shared humanity and the connections that we make with one another - that's what, in fact, makes life worth living.

This idea of shared humanity and the connections that we make with one another - that's what, in fact, makes life worth living.

- Clint Smith

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.

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

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