J.L. Bond Quotes

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

Life is like a balloon; you must put something into it to get the best possible results.

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

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

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

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.

Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.

The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

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.

The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.

It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

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

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

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.

Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships

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.

I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.

I think there is no world without theatre.

Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know.

The more you write, the better you will write! So - keep at it!

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

But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer.

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

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.

I am a storyteller from a personal viewpoint. When I run out of people I invent ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts. Never saw one.

I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.

To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.

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.

The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake.

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

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.

There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest.

There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.

Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre.

Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I don't succeed, never mind--I've still got the dream.

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

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