Maynard Jackson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Mean #Perfect #Not Perfect
If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?
-- Maynard Jackson

#Opportunity #Level Playing Field #Guarantees
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

#Kings #Hero #Mean
The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep.
-- Maynard Jackson

#Real #Sleep #Guy

The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.
Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.
I love the voice - itâ€™s the most perfect instrument ever heard. Itâ€™s God given.
We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.
When I kicked in the first TV Â– a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels Â– it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
The audience wants you present, not perfect.

Maynard Jackson famous quotes

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