Top 45 Malcolm Jenkins Quotes

Fashion, to me, is trends – it’s what other people are wearing; it’s what’s hot this season. I’m not as interested in that. Style, to me, is personal. Style is what each individual has.

I could easily vote for things that benefit me taxwise, but the rest of my family is not in this tax bracket. So when I vote, I try to keep in mind my family and my community and what I think is best for the nation as a whole.

After spending time with police officers on ride-alongs, meeting with politicians on the state and federal level and grass roots organizations fighting for human rights, it’s clear that our criminal justice system is still crippling communities of color through mass incarceration.

Sports is something that transcends generations, transcends backgrounds, cultures, races. And so the power of sports is real.

I grew up playing in the streets. We played two-hand touch from street pole to street pole. That’s how I learned the game.

Donald Trump is a divisive name in a locker room.

You’ve got a bunch of kids out here that might not want to be athletes, but they want to learn how to make a difference in their community, and I’m trying to as best I can show an example of that.

I’m learning the process of changing things. I’m not really sure where this is going to take me. But I know what I want before my career is over: I want people to remember me as someone other than a guy who just tackled people.

For myself and the Players Coalition, it was never about the money or having our voices bought. To hear people call me or anyone else a sell-out is insulting. It has always been, and will always be, about lifting the voices of the people and the work of those that fight for them.

If you want change, and you want things to get better across the country, there’s different ways to go about it.

Communities of color have also had to watch video after video of unarmed black men and women being handled without regard for their lives or well-being. As a black man, I see these images, and I see myself; I wonder whether this will happen to me or one of my loved ones.

For Obama, there was just a lot of enthusiasm in the minority communities to get out and vote. Everybody felt like their vote mattered.

Bow tie wearers are like a cult.

We are fighting to pass clean-slate legislation in Pennsylvania to seal nonviolent misdemeanor records automatically after 10 years. We must provide opportunities for employment, housing, education, loans, and voting. We should not disenfranchise a third of the population.

The crime bill basically incentivized the prison system. There were quotas, mandatory minimums. You have to serve 85 percent of your time, so it is guaranteeing that bodies will always be locked up. And that went mostly towards minority communities and poor communities, where crime is more rampant.

I actually enjoy talking about some things other than football.

The biggest things I have are the platform that I have and influence.

I’ve seen signs of life with regards to bipartisan support for criminal justice reform, but the support does not reflect the necessary urgency for real reform. This must be made a priority.

It’s actually been pretty liberating for me to fully get behind a cause that I feel is worthy and to stand on it and to follow where my heart takes me.

You can’t expect to go about change – especially change of this nature, when you talk about racial equality and justice – you can’t expect to go about or engage in that without resistance, and so you’re going to have some people who aren’t on board.

I’m about creating positive change in the communities that I come from.

I want to see us push for economical and educational advancement in communities of color and low-income communities, and I want to see our relationships between our communities and our law enforcement be advanced.

We’re kind of coached to stay away from touchy subjects just because of the arena that we’re in.

It’s important for students to learn to make smart money management decisions before heading off to college or the entering the workforce.

I don’t want to do things to do things. I want them all to make sense to me.

Everybody I interacted with in my life, directly or indirectly, has placed a fingerprint upon my life. That combination has made me who I am.

We are demanding police transparency and accountability so we can build trust and work together to make our communities safer.

The problem with hashtags is if someone starts a new hashtag, people move on.

I pop in highlight films from high school once in a while because those days were special.

I want to be remembered as someone that used football to raise awareness.

Changing communities and changing our country is going to last a lot longer than how many footballs you catch or how many touchdowns you make.

My wife has an all-natural skin and hair product company. I use all of her products for my beard. She has a beard oil and a beard wash. So that is what I use.

When I look at our communities, our country, our justice system, those are things I want to change and I’m committed to changing, and that’s going to take sacrifice. Laying the foundation is the hardest part and requires a lot of sacrifice and time.

As the blowback against those who stand up for what is right thickens, I feel it is necessary to push forward with a relentless determination.

I didn’t realize that the platform could be this big until Colin Kaepernick first took a knee. When he did that, that was kind of an ‘aha’ moment for me.

I remember my dad always complaining about getting pulled over. I remember the differences in school systems. I remember seeing police officers, not knowing their names, and knowing that they were there not to protect us, not to serve us, but to watch us.

We’ve got to understand what wins and what loses for us. What’s our formula? For us, it might not be flashy. It might be boring football, but it works for us.

Oftentimes, even myself as I’ve come through my entire career from high school all the way up here, everything has been football, football, football. And then you realize that life is much bigger than this game, especially when you start thinking about life after football and what you want to leave behind.

My goal is to use football as a platform to speak out on things that need addressing.

I have a huge passion for giving back.

When you have your star players that decide to use their platform, one, their platforms are bigger than everyone else’s, and two, they’re a force to be reckoned with because teams don’t want to lose that talent. They’re a force to be heard.

I’ve always been a little ‘preppy street.’ That’s how I would describe it. I’m not all the way into street wear, but I am not all the way into a suit and tie either, so I try to combine that look.

Sometimes, we get numb to the fact that people get sent away. We don’t see where they are; we say they are ‘doing time,’ and you really don’t know what that is.

The more that I learn about what’s going on, it’s really hard to ignore the oppression that people are actually going through.

Playing the nickel is something I’m very, very comfortable doing and I enjoy doing, but also, I know what me playing the safety position means to the entire defense.