17 Quotes by Benjamin Todd Jealous

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.

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

I often tell people I don't care whether they join the NAACP or some other group, but you better join something.

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.

We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.

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

With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.

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