From the moment Black folks arrives on these shores, they were fighting for liberation, they fought for freedom that they never had the opportunity to see, but they fought for it anyway because they knew that someday someone would. When I see that at the Whitney, I think of all those sacrifices.

Clint Smith

Read critically, write consciously; speak clearly; tell your truth!

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If you're not shootin', you should be loadin'. If you're not loadin, you should be movin', if you're not movin', someone's gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick.

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The two most important rules in a gunfight are: always cheat and always win.

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You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language.

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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 to be paranoid about?

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Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, cause it's gonna be empty.

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An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.

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The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.

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Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way.

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Don't shoot fast, shoot good.

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When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.

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Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it!

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A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and asked him 'Why do you carry a 45?' The Ranger responded, 'Because they don't make a 46.'

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The sling is to a rifle what the holster is to a pistol. If you have a sling, chances are you will keep the rifle with you. If there is no sling present, you will set the rifle down. When you are at the absolutely farthest point away from the rifle that you can possibly get, you'll need it.

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Every time I teach a class, I discover I don't know something.

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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.

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

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It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible.

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