Malcolm Jenkins Quotes

I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.

Be an active participant in your community and country. Every small gesture makes up the big gestures. Resist, rinse, repeat.

Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit yourself to working for it - for the long haul.

It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

I don't need to be someone famous or George Clooney. I don't need to be any of these people to get involved in my community or reach out to one nationally.

I have always been an active part of my community.

You can complain about problems, and you can suffer from the ramifications of issues that are social in nature and impact you, but the best thing you can do is get off your couch, get out of your home and go do something about it.

It's very hard to complain about society if you don't get involved.

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That's the important thing.

Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

I am proud to represent people who care so deeply about their communities. Their perseverance and strength only motivates me more as their representative in Congress.

Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.

I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it's something I continue to do even 20 years later.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money.

I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.