Benjamin Todd Jealous
Benjamin Todd Jealous
Benjamin Todd Jealousis an American venture capitalist, civic leader and former president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He is currently a partner at Kapor Capital, Board Chairman of the Southern Elections Fund and one of the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs Visiting Professors at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth18 January 1973
CountryUnited States of America
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 right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.
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.
Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.
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.
The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.
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.