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Julian Bond Biography

Horace Julian Bond (January 14, 1940 – August 15, 2015) was 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 (SNCC).

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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.

Education, Jobs, Left, People, Promise, Skills

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

Life, Negro, Southern, Thinking, Way

Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made you understand that, "Hey, these people can do things too. " And I think it made me and other people in the movement realize that we're living in a community of equals. And that among those equals, they have equal rights. And we ought to respect their rights if they respected ours.

Community, Men, Movement, Taken, Things, Thinking

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

Appeared, Shows, Television, Television Shows, Weekly

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.

America, Big, Color, Race, Rights

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.

Group, Interesting, Lying, People

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

Interest, Place, Principal, Principle, Principles

Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.

Blacks, Existing, Groups, Order, Rights, Society

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

Amendment, Firsts, House, Picket, Sign, White

We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes.

Defeated, Nonwhites, Percentages, Same, Vote

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

Emerge, Entered, Periods, Slavery, Underemployment, Unemployment

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

Georgia, Great Men, Legislator, State, Years

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.

America, Party, People, Profession, Race, Solutions

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.

Attempts, Community, Expense, Gay, Rights In America

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

College, Come, Generations, Six

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

1960S, Civil, Continues, Equality, Freedom, Rights

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

Children, Education, Receiving, School, Violence, Worth

The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.

American, Flag, Flags, Flying, Party, Swastika

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

Denied, Diminished, Groups, Humanity, Rights

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.

Atlanta, Church, Class, Fairly, Guy

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