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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She showed the world, not just me but everyone, what one person can do, ... She is one person who sparked a movement whose ripples are still being felt, not just all over the country, but all over the world.
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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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She was trained to be an opera singer. She gave concerts to raise money for him, and when he died she continued to try to keep his legacy alive.
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Martin Luther King belonged to another transcendent generation. A generation born into segregation; a generation freed from racism's restraints by their own efforts; a generation equally determined to see their way as free women and men.
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She played a great role when her husband was alive in assisting him. They were truly partners in every sense.
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But I think the movement was a mix of who was black and young and who was in college then. We came from a variety of backgrounds.
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The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.