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.
More Quotes from Julian Bond:
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.Julian Bond
I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.
Julian Bond
He always had such a fierce determination to fight segregation in every possible way.
Julian Bond
As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
Julian Bond
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.
Julian Bond
I don't think you'll have to worry that this mental midget, this hillbilly Hitler from Alabama, is anywhere near becoming the nominee of the Democratic Party.
Julian Bond
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Education Quotes, People Quotes, Promise Quotes, World QuotesThis diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.
David Foster Wallace
There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.
Don Herold
Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.
William Allan