77 Quotes by Julian Bond

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's this big debate that goes on in America about what rights are: Civil rights, human rights, what they are? it's an artificial debate. Because everybody has rights. Everybody has rights - I don't care who you are, what you do, where you come from, how you were born, what your race or creed or color is. You have rights. Everybody's got rights.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.