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Julian Bond
Age: 75 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 14
Died: 2015
Died: August 15
American Politician
Journalist
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Nashville
Tennessee
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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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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 war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.
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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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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.
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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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The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.
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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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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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Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!
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I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia
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I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years
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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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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 don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.
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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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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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You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.
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The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.
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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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