Allegiance Quote by Benjamin Todd Jealous

“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.”

Benjamin Todd Jealous

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The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.

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

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

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In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.

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Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!

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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government,…

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Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

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“Protesting can be as simple as not participating in the Pledge of Allegiance.”

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Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as…

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The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.

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