Quotes by Julian Bond

“People who are poor who are living on the edge of poverty or who are living under poverty are tucked away some place else. I dont see them; they dont see me; we dont interact; we have no relation one to the other; no physical relation.”

“I dont think youll have to worry that this mental midget, this hillbilly Hitler from Alabama, is anywhere near becoming the nominee of the Democratic Party.”

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

“Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.”

“There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.”

“It means something for us to know that history and get some feel for who the people were,”

“She showed the world, not just me but everyone, what one person can do, ... She is one person who sparked a movement whose ripples are still being felt, not just all over the country, but all over the world.”

“Its a cliche to say she was the mother of the civil rights movement, but she was.”

“quiet example demonstrated to millions new ways to confront the evil of segregation.”

“In some ways it reflects the realities of the 1950s: There were relatively few women in public leadership roles, ... So that small subset that becomes prominent in civil rights would tend to be men. But that doesnt excuse the way some women have just been written out of history.”

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.

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