Top 17 Quotes by Benjamin Todd 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.

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

In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren't organized.

The difference between a child's aspiration and that family's situation, is the exact measurement of that family's frustrations.

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

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

We do not owe allegiance to any candidate because they share our party or our color, but because they share our principles and our conscience.

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.

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

There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.