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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People who are poor who are living on the edge of poverty or who are living under poverty are tucked away some place else. I don't see them; they don't see me; we don't interact; we have no relation one to the other; no physical relation.
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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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It means something for us to know that history and get some feel for who the people were,
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A lot of people are gone. You lose that witness, that personal testimony.
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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
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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.
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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.
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People don't just show up and lie down in the middle of the street some place out of nothing. Somebody said meet me there, let's get together, and let's do this thing. The interesting thing is that we don't know who all of the leaders of these groups are, but we know that they're out there, and we know a new group of leadership is being created. It shows you that leadership can come from anywhere.
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It takes people who have a widespread series of experiences to develop future leaders. It takes people who aren't afraid to challenge and move forward.
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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.
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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.