Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Maynard Jackson

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr. was an American politician and attorney from Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected in 1973 at the age of 35 as the first black mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and of any major city in the South. He served three terms, making him the second longest-serving mayor of Atlanta, after six-term mayor William B. Hartsfield.

American - Politician | March 23, 1938 - June 23, 2003

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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

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

Maynard Jackson

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.

Maynard Jackson

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

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

Maynard Jackson

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Maynard Jackson

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