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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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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I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.
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And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.
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But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.
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We quickly became aware that this was bigger than we thought and that we would have to dig deeper and do more. And we're still doing it today.
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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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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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I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia
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People see America through particular lenses, either their profession, their race or their gender. So the party that speaks to our racial perceptions and offers solutions to the racial difficulties which we face is the party that's going to be rewarded with our votes.
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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.
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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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quiet example demonstrated to millions new ways to confront the evil of segregation.
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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,
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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.