Julian Bond Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

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

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

The First Amendment means everything to me.

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

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

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia

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.