I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.
BENJAMIN JEALOUSIn this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
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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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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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The beauty of being black in American society is that black has always been an inclusive definition.
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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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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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Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.
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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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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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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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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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No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
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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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Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them.
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Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.
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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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