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"And what [Obama] was very clear about is what we're very clear about, which is that if you fix the problems that most afflict black and brown people, you actually fix the country as a whole.

"We have fought for, you know, to raise the floor in this society. We have fought for black people because, historically, that flow was defined by the way that black people were treated.

"But each time we raised the floor, we actually improved the country for all people."

-- Benjamin Jealous, president of the NAACP, on the PBS television program, Charlie Rose, 2009-07-17 (link has transcript and video)