Julian Bond
Julian Bond
Horace Julian Bondwas an American social activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement, politician, professor and writer. While a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he helped to establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth14 January 1940
CityNashville, TN
CountryUnited States of America
race color america
There's this big debate that goes on in America about what rights are: Civil rights, human rights, what they are? it's an artificial debate. Because everybody has rights. Everybody has rights - I don't care who you are, what you do, where you come from, how you were born, what your race or creed or color is. You have rights. Everybody's got rights.
moving people leader
It takes people who have a widespread series of experiences to develop future leaders. It takes people who aren't afraid to challenge and move forward.
principles interest principal
You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.
slavery unemployment periods
As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
taken men thinking
Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made you understand that, "Hey, these people can do things too." And I think it made me and other people in the movement realize that we're living in a community of equals. And that among those equals, they have equal rights. And we ought to respect their rights if they respected ours.
rights order groups
Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself,
gay cities people
Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't say they can't marry in your city.
racism black racist
Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.
apology decision bells
Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.
virginia american-universities teach
I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia
vote defeated percentages
We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes.
bankrupt becomes contempt message
When that message is coupled with anti-Semitism, with homophobia, with anti-Catholicism, and with a real contempt for American democracy, then the whole message becomes bankrupt and has to be discarded and set aside,
politics
There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.
american-activist aware became bigger deeper dig quickly
We quickly became aware that this was bigger than we thought and that we would have to dig deeper and do more. And we're still doing it today.