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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A lot of people are gone. You lose that witness, that personal testimony.
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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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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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You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.
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As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
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Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.
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Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.
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I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia
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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,