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The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged – and without which none can be protected.

Benjamin Jealous

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
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
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
The U.S. Constitution contains no right for a child to go to school, let alone for a child to go to a good school. And yet, we know that if they don’t go to a good school, they’re less likely to be able to realize all that this country has to offer.
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Child Constituation Good Know School
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
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
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
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
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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Country People School
Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.
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Family Nurture Practice Values
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 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
Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.
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Invest Jobs More Percent School War
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

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