Quotes from Julian Bond

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.

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

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

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.

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

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 for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away.

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.

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

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

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.