Maynard Jackson quotes:

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

Behind closed doors they had what were legendary battles I hear but when the doors opened there was absolute unity. Not a crack could be found. No separation whatsoever. They were locked together for the good of the community.

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.

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

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