Julian Bond

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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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 is a thin line between politics and theatricals.

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

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

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Quotes by Julian Bond