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In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

Benjamin Jealous

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
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
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
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
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
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
Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them.
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Community Law Past
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
No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
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Dream Minimum Person Wage
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
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
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
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
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

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