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.
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
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
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
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
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…
The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected. - Benjamin Jealous
The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.
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
Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and underc…
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
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 …
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
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. - Benjamin Jealous
Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.
No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage. - Benjamin Jealous
No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
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