Julian Bond Quotes


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.


Citations

Bond, Julian. Interview by Joseph Mosnier. Civil Rights History Project, Library of Congress, 4 June 2011.

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Julian Bond
Julian Bond
  • Born: January 14, 1940
  • Died: August 15, 2015
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Activist

Horace Julian Bond was an American social activist, leader of the civil rights movement, politician, professor, and writer. While he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he helped establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1971, he helped found the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, and served as its first president for nearly a decade.