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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.
Julian Bond
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Julian Bond
Age: 75 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 14
Died: 2015
Died: August 15
American Politician
Journalist
Politician
Nashville
Tennessee
Horace Julian Bond
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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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As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
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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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I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia
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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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I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980
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Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.
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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.
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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.
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The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.
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Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.
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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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I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years
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You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.
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What we mean by integration is not to be with them (whites) but to have what they have.
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Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action
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There is no coloration to rights. Everybody has rights. I don't care who you are, where you come from. You got rights. I got rights. All God's children got rights.
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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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I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.
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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.
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