Julian Bond Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years.”

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

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

“I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980.”

“Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.”

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

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

“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.”