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
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quiet example demonstrated to millions new ways to confront the evil of segregation.
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First, this middle class I think owes its existence to both affirmative action and the expansion of opportunity for people with skills and training.
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A lot of people are gone. You lose that witness, that personal testimony.
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Part of my task is to modernize the institution and to hasten a kind of quickness, instead of this ponderous way we have of dealing with things.
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In some ways it reflects the realities of the 1950s: There were relatively few women in public leadership roles, ... So that small subset that becomes prominent in civil rights would tend to be men. But that doesn't excuse the way some women have just been written out of history.
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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.
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I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia
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Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person
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Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.
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I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980
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The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.
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The First Amendment means everything to me.
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The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.
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I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years