Julian Bond Quotes (44 Quotes)

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.

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.

The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.

The First Amendment means everything to me.

It means something for us to know that history and get some feel for who the people were,

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.

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.

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.

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.

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

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.

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.

First, this middle class I think owes its existence to both affirmative action and the expansion of opportunity for people with skills and training.

Moulded on Africa's anvil,tempered down home.

She was her husband's partner in life and shared his commitment after his death, she ceaselessly promoted his advocacy of nonviolence and protected his legacy.

I'm old enough to remember when the political parties competed for the votes of African-Americans, and I'm old enough to remember when most black people were Republicans. The Republican Party was the party of Abraham Lincoln and could do no wrong.

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.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

What is less well understood about her after her husband's death is the way she kept focused on the ideas of non-violence. She never abandoned that. She focused on the use of non-violence as a way to settle human conflicts.

I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away.

He always had such a fierce determination to fight segregation in every possible way.

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.

A lot of people are gone. You lose that witness, that personal testimony.

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.

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.

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

She played a great role when her husband was alive in assisting him. They were truly partners in every sense.

There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.

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.

But ambition does funny things to people.

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years.

You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

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.

It's a cliche to say she was the mother of the civil rights movement, but she was.

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action.

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.

I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980.

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.

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.

I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.

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,

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

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.