As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.
BENJAMIN JEALOUSLet us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.
More Benjamin Jealous Quotes
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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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The beauty of being black in American society is that black has always been an inclusive definition.
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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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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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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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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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No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
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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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In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
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I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.
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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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Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them.
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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.
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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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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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