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The beauty of being black in American society is that black has always been an inclusive definition.

Benjamin Jealous

I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.
BENJAMIN JEALOUS

Dream Impossible Kids
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
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
No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
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Dream Minimum Person Wage
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
Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture is more significant than eye color, or the shape of one’s feet.
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Eye Hair Lying Skin Somehow
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
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
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
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
Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.
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Family Nurture Practice Values
Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them.
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Community Law Past
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
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
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
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

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