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

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


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No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.



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.

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.



The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.



As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.



Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.

Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.



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.

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.



I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.

I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.



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.

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.



Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.



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.

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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If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.



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