Maynard Jackson Quotes

• The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep.

  Maynard Jackson

  Real, Sleep, Guy

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• I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting.

  Maynard Jackson

  Kings, Hero, Mean

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• Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

  Maynard Jackson

  Mean, Perfect, Not Perfect

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• If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?

  Maynard Jackson

  Opportunity, Level Playing Field, Guarantees

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