Julian Bond Men Quotations

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.

Martin Luther King belonged to another transcendent generation. A generation born into segregation; a generation freed from racism's restraints by their own efforts; a generation equally determined to see their way as free women and men.

But I think the movement was a mix of who was black and young and who was in college then. We came from a variety of backgrounds.

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.

The First Amendment means everything to me.

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.

Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made you understand that, "Hey, these people can do things too." And I think it made me and other people in the movement realize that we're living in a community of equals. And that among those equals, they have equal rights. And we ought to respect their rights if they respected ours.

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

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.