Last century we needed lawyers; this century we need big, broad coalitions. When extremists decide to attack all our communities, they must hope that there will be infighting. But we have stood all for one and one for all. That is how we will win.
From Benjamin Todd 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.
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.
I often tell people I don't care whether they join the NAACP or some other group, but you better join something.
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.
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.
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