77 Quotes by Julian Bond

Part of my task is to modernize the institution and to hasten a kind of quickness, instead of this ponderous way we have of dealing with things.

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.

Martin Luther King belonged to another transcendent generation. A generation born into segregation; a generation freed from racism's restraints by their own efforts; a generation equally determined to see their way as free women and men.

When that message is coupled with anti-Semitism, with homophobia, with anti-Catholicism, and with a real contempt for American democracy, then the whole message becomes bankrupt and has to be discarded and set aside,

We quickly became aware that this was bigger than we thought and that we would have to dig deeper and do more. And we're still doing it today.

First, this middle class I think owes its existence to both affirmative action and the expansion of opportunity for people with skills and training.

quiet example demonstrated to millions new ways to confront the evil of segregation.

A lot of people are gone. You lose that witness, that personal testimony.

It's a cliche to say she was the mother of the civil rights movement, but she was.