Malcolm Jenkins Quotes

It became clear to me that simply caring is not enough. To drive real progress, you have to change both hearts and laws. You need both understanding and action.

Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

Advocacy: Advocacy for America

I believe we can make progress on bringing true equality and fairness back to our government if we continue to work together and make our voices heard.

As an organizer, I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.

We have a big platform we can use to make change in this country. It starts with going home to our own cities and making change there. It starts with encouraging people to vote and using our platform to talk to people with power in this country to create change.

I am unapologetic about the need for social change, greater inclusion, and equity.

The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.

We're seeing young people find their own voices and find their activism.

It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands.

The only way you really see change is by helping to create it.

Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston.

We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice; the only way to prevent future injustice is to create the society we would like to see, one where we are all equal under the law.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.