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

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

- Benjamin Jealous

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 ju…

- Benjamin Jealous

Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and underc…

- Benjamin Jealous

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 …

- Benjamin Jealous

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

- Benjamin Jealous

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

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

- Benjamin Jealous

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

- Benjamin Jealous