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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Many are attracted to social service-the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.
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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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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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He always had such a fierce determination to fight segregation in every possible way.
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A lot of people are gone. You lose that witness, that personal testimony.
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It means something for us to know that history and get some feel for who the people were,
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quiet example demonstrated to millions new ways to confront the evil of segregation.
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She developed the King Center in Atlanta, and she made it possible for his message, particularly his emphasis on nonviolence which many people sort of have let slip -- she helped keep that alive.
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The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.
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I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.
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Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.
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If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can't let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone.
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Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the attempts by many to divide blacks and the gay community with the argument that the latter are seeking some imaginary special rights at the expense of blacks.
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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.