Julian Bond
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"Horace Julian Bond", known as "Julian Bond", is an United States/American social activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement, politician, professor, and writer. While a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he helped to establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

Bond was elected to four terms in the Georgia House of Representatives and later to six terms in the Georgia Senate, having served a combined twenty years in both legislative chambers. From 1998 to 2010, he was chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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I don't think you'll have to worry that this mental midget, this hillbilly Hitler from Alabama, is anywhere near becoming the nominee of the Democratic Party.

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.

It's 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 doesn't excuse the way some women have just been written out of history.

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.

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

There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.