Julian Bond famous quotes

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
-- Julian Bond

#Children #School #Years

Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.
-- Julian Bond

#Party #Moon #Tea

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.
-- Julian Bond

#Party #America #Race

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.
-- Julian Bond

#Freedom #Rights #Movement

If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can't let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone.
-- Julian Bond

#Religious #Gay #Cities

Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the attempts by many to divide blacks and the gay community with the argument that the latter are seeking some imaginary special rights at the expense of blacks.
-- Julian Bond

#Gay #America #Rights

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.
-- Julian Bond

#Gay #Cities #People

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.
-- Julian Bond

#Class #Atlanta #Guy

The First Amendment means everything to me.
-- Julian Bond

#Mean #Firsts #First Amendment

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.
-- Julian Bond

#Rights #Humanity #Groups

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
-- Julian Bond

#Unemployment #Slavery #Periods

What we mean by integration is not to be with them (whites) but to have what they have.
-- Julian Bond

#Mean #Integration

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.
-- Julian Bond

#Jobs #Skills #People

You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.
-- Julian Bond

#College #Generations #Six

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action
-- Julian Bond

#White #House #Firsts

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.
-- Julian Bond

#Racism #Black #Racist

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.
-- Julian Bond

#War #Compassion #Iraq

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.
-- Julian Bond

#Apology #Decision #Bells

Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself,
-- Julian Bond

#Rights #Order #Groups

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years
-- Julian Bond

#Years #Georgia #Great Men

I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980
-- Julian Bond

#Television #Shows

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
-- Julian Bond

#People #News #Detroit

I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away
-- Julian Bond

#Running #Struggle #Thinking

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia
-- Julian Bond

#Virginia #Teach #University

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.
-- Julian Bond

#Couple #Real #Justice

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.
-- Julian Bond

#Umpires #Justice #Rewards

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.
-- Julian Bond

#Principles #Interest #Principal

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!
-- Julian Bond

#History #Waiting #Good Things

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.
-- Julian Bond

#Thinking #Southern #Way

The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side,
-- Julian Bond

#Party #Flying #Flags