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Julian Bond

Julian Bond

American Activist

Born: Jan 14, 1940

Died: Aug 15, 2015

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

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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. Julian Bond

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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. Julian Bond

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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. Julian Bond

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The First Amendment means everything to me. Julian Bond

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I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980. Julian Bond

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I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years. Julian Bond

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Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision. Julian Bond

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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. Julian Bond

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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. Julian Bond

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else. Julian Bond

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

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