Julian Bond Quotes

36 quotes in 491 categories

• 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.
• As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't…
• As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
• The First Amendment means everything to me.
• 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…
• Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
• Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't say they can't…
• 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…
• 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.…
• The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.
• 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,…
• The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.
• The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side,
• People see America through particular lenses, either their profession, their race or their gender. So the party that speaks to our racial perceptions and offers…
• Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action
• I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia
• I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on…
• 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…
• I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980
• I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

Browse Julian Bond Quotes by Category