Maynard Jackson quotes
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“Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.”
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“If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?”
-- Maynard Jackson#Opportunity Quotes #Level Playing Field Quotes #Guarantees Quotes
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“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.”
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“The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep.”
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“Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”
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“My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.”
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“I love the voice - it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.”
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“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.”
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