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

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Julian Bond
Age: 75 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 14
Died: 2015
Died: August 15
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Nashville
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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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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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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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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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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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The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.
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You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.
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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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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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Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!
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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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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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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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Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action
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I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years
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The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.
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