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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.
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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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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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 humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.
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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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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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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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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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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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Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.
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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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The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.
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I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years
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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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You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.
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Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!
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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 now teach at American University and the University of Virginia
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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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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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