Malcolm Jenkins Quotes

We have to start imagining a new reality - this will mean fewer police and more social workers and teachers. This will mean creating more economic possibilities and investment that preserves and does not displace our communities.

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America when what black America needs isn't a leader, it is education.

We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

When we sit and think about what the world needs to looks like in order for black lives to actually matter, there is a debate: What is going to make our communities safe? How do we deal with harm? How do we solve problems that come up in our communities?

People don't need to become more aware of poverty - they need to know how to end it.

However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank.

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

As a white woman with a privileged education, I'm keenly aware that I founded an organization that can only realize its goal if it enlists many more leaders who share the backgrounds of the students and families we work with.

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

I will begin a new program to get private enterprise into the ghetto and the ghetto into private enterprise. I call it “Black Capitalism.” More black ownership of business and land and homes can be the multiplier of pride that will end our racial strife.

The cost of remaining segregated when others integrated was too high …. Society’s best safeguard against persistent discrimination is competition.

I have tried to suggest that injustice is not necessary economic -- that the economics can work, and has often worked, when the constituency for it is animated. The politics of equality -- that is a little harder.

In approaching this problem [school desegregation], we cannot turn the clock back...

I don't believe we need to choose between addressing economic issues and addressing issues of social or racial justice.

We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.

The social justice movement of the 21st century is economic development.