Sunday, August 23, 2015

In Remembrance of Julian Bond

This is in honor of Julian Bond, who died on August 15th. I honor and affirm Julian Bond as a courageous human being whose activism and passion was an unending struggle to work toward a more kind, sane, just, and peaceful world. Bless this great man and the fiercely compassionate and caring, truthful and illuminating, wise and loving legacy he leaves for us all. May Julian Bond's courage, integrity, and actions on behalf of life inform and inspire each of us. With deep respect and gratitude ~ Molly


Quotes by Julian Bond

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied 
rights granted to others.

 There's this big debate that goes on in America about what rights are: 
Civil rights, human rights, what they are? it's an artificial debate. 
Because everybody has rights. Everybody has rights - I don't care 
who you are, what you do, where you come from, how you 
were born, what your race or creed or color is. 
You have rights. Everybody's got rights.

 
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.
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years 
and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is 
always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the 
attempts by many to divide blacks and the gay community 
with the argument that the latter are seeking some 
imaginary special rights at the expense of blacks.
 
 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.

Good things don't come from those who wait.
They come from those who agitate.
 

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