American - Activist | January 14, 1940 - August 15, 2015
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.
Julian Bond
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I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.
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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.
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Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.
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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.
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There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.
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Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.
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The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.
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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.
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