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

Benjamin Jealous

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
I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.
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Dream Impossible Kids
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
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
The beauty of being black in American society is that black has always been an inclusive definition.
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People Thinking White
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
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 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
No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
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Dream Minimum Person Wage
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
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
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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Create Improve Longer Make Need Old Racial Stock
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
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
Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.
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Family Nurture Practice Values

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