A biography for Alphonso Jacksonhasn’t been written yet.
“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 you are.”
“And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.”
“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.”
“But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.”
“And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.”
“Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.”
“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 the best workers in the world are in Federal Government.”