African american Quote by Alphonso Jackson

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

— Alphonso Jackson

And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.

— Alphonso Jackson

But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.

— Alphonso Jackson

I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.

— Alphonso Jackson

They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by…

— Alphonso Jackson

But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of…

— Alphonso Jackson

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

— Alphonso Jackson

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

— Alphonso Jackson

And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country.

— Alphonso Jackson

We believe that, by the time that we leave office, it will be institutionalized, and these programs will be addressing the needs and curing…

— Alphonso Jackson

The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside,…

— Alphonso Jackson

America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color…

— Alphonso Jackson