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
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.
white house firsts
Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action
college six generations
You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.
racism black racist
Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.
jobs skills people
As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.
years georgia great-men
I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years
atlanta class guy
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.
television shows television-shows
I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980
apology decision bells
Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.
people news detroit
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
virginia american-universities teach
I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia