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Julian Bond
Age: 75 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 14
Died: 2015
Died: August 15
American Politician
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Politician
Nashville
Tennessee
Horace Julian Bond
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States
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Legislators
Georgia

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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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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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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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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.
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The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.
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Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!
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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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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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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 humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.
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You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.
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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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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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The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.
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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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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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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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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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I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia
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I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980
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