Quotes from Julian Bond

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

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.

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.

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.

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

And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.

The First Amendment means everything to me.

There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.

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.

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

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

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

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 keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

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.

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 keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

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

Violence is Black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years worth of education.

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.