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We really have to, as a country, recognize that school is where people get their identity not just as a scholar, or a future business person, but as a citizen. And we need to make sure that schools set them up for success as citizens.

Benjamin Jealous

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.
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Civil Equality Government Rights
Growing up as a black kid with a white father who loves you, who affirms you, who was part of your life is fundamentally different than what black people in my family were subjected to in the 19th century or the 18th century. But unfortunately, it doesn’t change the old racial order.
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Affirm Father Growing Love
It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation’s police departments.
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Communities Discourse National Needed Resources
When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we’re selling ourselves short.
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Selling Somebody Tough Use
White has always been an exclusive definition. I think one of the challenges for white people is to figure out how to have a more inclusive picture of who their families are, of who they are.
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Challenge Families Figure People Think White
It’s a funny thing, in the US we all believe that we have a right to go to school. We have a right to a good education. And we don’t.
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Believe Children Country
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
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Class Conviction Country Great
Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them.
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Community Law Past
No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
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Dream Minimum Person Wage
I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.
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Dream Impossible Kids
I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to really kind of push the cause of progress and justice and human rights forward.
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Justice Progress Rights
When you’re smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the person who did the crime are both human.
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Crime Firsts Smart
You’ve got to make sure that people have the opportunity to work at a good job, they have access to good healthcare, and that they have the opportunity to build wealth over time.
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Access Build Healthcare Make Opportunity Sure
As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.
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Hate People World
The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged – and without which none can be protected.
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Leveraged Rights Upon Vote
The beauty of being black in American society is that black has always been an inclusive definition.
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People Thinking White

We really have to, as a country, recognize that school is where people get their identity not just as a scholar, or a future business person, but as a citizen. And we need to make sure that schools set them up for success as citizens.

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We really have to, as a country, recognize that school is where people get their identity not just as a scholar, or a future business person, but as a citizen. And we need to make sure that schools set them up for success as citizens.

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