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I think we need to let the old racial order just stay where it is and not seek to improve upon it. Not try to create more racial categories, because all that does is it makes a race stick around longer.

Benjamin Jealous

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
In order to bring down the incarceration rate, you’ve got to start with the beginning of life. You’ve got to make sure that parents and schools are prepared to prepare young people for success. You’ve got to deal with the next stage of life.
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Jobs Opportunity School
Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.
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Family Nurture Practice Values
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
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
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
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
Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them.
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Community Law Past
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
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
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
I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.
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Dream Impossible Kids
The beauty of being black in American society is that black has always been an inclusive definition.
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People Thinking White
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
No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
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Dream Minimum Person Wage
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

I think we need to let the old racial order just stay where it is and not seek to improve upon it. Not try to create more racial categories, because all that does is it makes a race stick around longer.

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I think we need to let the old racial order just stay where it is and not seek to improve upon it. Not try to create more racial categories, because all that does is it makes a race stick around longer.

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