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.
BENJAMIN JEALOUSYou’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.
More Benjamin Jealous Quotes
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In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
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No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
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Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.
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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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Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.
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