Malcolm Jenkins Quotes

The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness is the actual end point. And it is not.

I want to thank the fans across the country who have supported me in this effort to fight for equality and justice. I want to thank those that have dedicated their lives to this fight, as I know that it is not easy. And I want to challenge those who stay silent to be courageous and use your platforms to become part of the solution. God Bless.

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.

Whatever I do, it will be fighting for social justice.

'Rise Up' is very necessary. Point blank.

It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.

There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

By the force of our demands, our determination and our numbers, we shall splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces, and put them back in the image of God and democracy.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

The fight against racism must be seen as a revolutionary one.

I'm here to say all lives matter.

I'm an activist.

The Black Lives Matter movement has spawned all kinds of activism.

You know I think with Black Lives Matter, it is extremely special and important. I definitely feel that.

I grew up always thinking that fighting for justice was our obligation, whether that's giving your voice to something, serving as a verbal advocate for someone, or physically being in spaces or occupying space to make and create change.

I find hope in knowing that I belong to a state that has a lot of people who are champions of change and progress; that we will rise up and fight for justice and equality; that, ultimately, love will trump hate.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.

The civil rights movement was not a mirage… It was live and in living color.

Whether or not you call it Black Lives Matter, whether or not you put a hashtag in front of it, whether or not you call it the Movement for Black Lives, all of that is irrelevant. Because there was resistance before Black Lives Matter, and there will be resistance after Black Lives Matter.

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.