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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
Literature
Lie
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" Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded. "
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" While the most disadvantaged students - most often poor students of color - receive the most considerable academic benefits from attending diverse schools, research demonstrates that young people in general, regardless of their background, experience profound benefits from attending integrated schools. "
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" 'A Talk to Teachers' is emblematic of Baldwin's proclivity for candor over political appeasement and, like much of his work, focusses on history and the American consciousness. "
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" It's incredibly important to understand history... when it comes to inequality. "
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" Each holiday season, as family members arrive and couches are unfolded, my household settles into a palpable nostalgia. Poorly designed photo albums are pulled from the shelves. Home videos of prepubescent siblings in matching pajamas dance across the television screen. "
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" The most important and brave thing someone can do, I think, in the face of dehumanization, is to continue to assert their humanity. "
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" In high school, I made the all-city and all-state soccer teams. "
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Soccer
Made
" If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is. "
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Only
Side
" 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. "
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Truth
Speak
" I want to live in a world where my son will not be presumed guilty the moment he is born, where a toy in his hand isn't mistaken for anything other than a toy. "
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Moment
World
" We tend to think of racism as this interpersonal verbal or physical abuse, when in truth, that is only one way that racism manifests itself. The reality of contemporary racism is that it while it is ubiquitous, it is often invisible, subsequently making it more difficult to name and identify. "
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Name
Reality
" We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't. "
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Time
Saying
" I've been a follower of Arsenal Football Club since I was ten years old. "
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Club
Follower
Football
" When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life. "
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Forget
Country
" This idea of shared humanity and the connections that we make with one another - that's what, in fact, makes life worth living. "
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Living
Connections
Humanity
" I think about the history of racism in this country all the time. "
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Think
Racism
" We inculcate young people with the message that if they don't succeed, it is merely of their own doing. They should have worked harder, we say. They should have made better decisions. This message is especially present in communities of color. "
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People
Color
" Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities. "
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Black
Burden
" 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. "
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Focus
Effort
Victory
" New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud. "
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New
New Orleans
Loud
" Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it will fail to meaningfully address the inequality that exists as a direct result of federal policy. "
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Action
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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 is there. "
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Admit
Country
" 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. "
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Women
Indigenous People
Men
" I kind of follow in the tradition of some folks - some thinkers and scholars I really look up - who reject the idea of intellectual compartmentalization. "
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Kind
Tradition
" There is simply no better way to generate buzz for soccer in your country than having your team in the World Cup. "
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Soccer
World
" As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints. "
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" While violence is part of what it means to be part of the black diaspora in the United States, that is not all it means to be black. "
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United States
Violence
" After high school, I earned a scholarship to play Division I soccer at a small school in North Carolina, but I didn't get much playing time, which forced me to determine who I was beyond the field, something I had previously never had to do. "
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High School
Small
Time
" People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves. "
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People
Want
Believe
" Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released. "
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Fantasy
Abolition
Slaves