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No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
Benjamin Jealous / American Political Leader
Dream
Minimum Wage
Persons
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I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.
Benjamin Jealous / American Political Leader
Dream
Kids
Impossible
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Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.
Benjamin Jealous / American Political Leader
Family Values
Nurture
Practice
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Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.
Benjamin Jealous / American Political Leader
Government
Civil Rights
Rights
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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.
Benjamin Jealous / American Political Leader
Right To Vote
Rights
Vote
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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 / American Political Leader
Class
Conviction
Great American
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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.
Benjamin Jealous / American Political Leader
Hate
People
World
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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.
Benjamin Jealous / American Political Leader
Jobs
War
School
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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.
Benjamin Jealous / American Political Leader
Selling
Tough
Use
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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.
Benjamin Jealous / American Political Leader
Crime
Firsts
Smart
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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.
Benjamin Jealous / American Political Leader
Justice
Progress
Rights
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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.
Benjamin Jealous / American Political Leader
Country
People
School
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In the USA, it's harder for a black man with no criminal record to find a job than a white man with a criminal record, which is to say that race is actually a bigger factor than ex-felon status. But if you're both, it's almost impossible to find a job.
Benjamin Jealous / American Political Leader
Jobs
Men
Race
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The beauty of being black in American society is that black has always been an inclusive definition. 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.
Benjamin Jealous / American Political Leader
People
Thinking
White
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Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. 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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Community
Law
Past
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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. 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.
Benjamin Jealous / American Political Leader
Believe
Children
Country
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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. 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.
Benjamin Jealous / American Political Leader
Jobs
Opportunity
School
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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. 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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Father
Growing Up
Love You
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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. The second lie built on top of that is that there's a hierarchy that more significant difference, the color showing up as brown on your skin rather than brown in your hair, or whatever, is somehow more significant and there's some sort of hierarchy. That the lighter you are, the straighter your hair, the better you are.
Benjamin Jealous / American Political Leader
Eye
Hair
Lying
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