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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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Julian Bond
Age: 75 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 14
Died: 2015
Died: August 15
American Politician
Journalist
Politician
Nashville
Tennessee
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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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The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.
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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 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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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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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 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 Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.
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Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.
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You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.
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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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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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I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980
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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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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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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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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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