Kenny Smith Quotes

I'm not a fan of the NCAA. I don't think they make decisions for the kids. They make decisions for bureaucracy and for their structure.

The NCAA is one of the worst organizations - maybe the worst organization - in sports. They certainly don't care about the athlete.

I hate seeing people getting a raw deal and artists not being in control of what they are doing. It happens all the time.

The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.

People abusing their power makes me see red.

The NCAA has to establish their own rules and enforce their own rules.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know that. I just pity the people caught in that tender trap. And most of all, I pity those kids.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

It is assumed that the daughters of the poor are for the use of the rich. They assume that we’re their property.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

I did not allow the mighty to distress the common peasant or the poverty-stricken widow.

Oppression is but another name for irresponsible power, if history is to be trusted.

If we had but one square mile left, they [the whites of Georgia] would not be satisfied unless they could get it.

The NCAA makes so much money off of their kids, and they put ridiculous - absolutely ridiculous - restrictions on everything that they can do.

Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

Black people are pledging their fealty to the state, and yet they aren't getting the same return. This is theft. It's systemized.

The more that I learn about what's going on, it's really hard to ignore the oppression that people are actually going through.

The N.C.A.A. is a multibillion-dollar business built on the talents of players who are often unqualified for or uninterested in being students and who benefit materially from the system only if they are among the few who turn professional.

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

We all know that abuse, harassment, and worse have long invaded the entertainment ecosystem. That story goes back to the beginning of Hollywood... probably farther.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.