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Top 25 Julian Bond Quotes (2025 Update)

Julian Bond Quote: “Good things don’t come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!”

1. “Good things don’t come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!”

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Julian Bond Quote: “The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.”

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

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Julian Bond Quote: “The civil rights movement didn’t begin in Montgomery and it didn’t end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.”

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

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Julian Bond Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Julian Bond Quote: “You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.”

5. “You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.”

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Julian Bond Quote: “I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.”

6. “I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.”

— Julian Bond

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

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

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Julian Bond Quote: “Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action.”

8. “Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action.”

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Julian Bond Quote: “It takes people who have a widespread series of experiences to develop future leaders. It takes people who aren’t afraid to challenge and move forward.”

9. “It takes people who have a widespread series of experiences to develop future leaders. It takes people who aren’t afraid to challenge and move forward.”

— Julian Bond

Julian Bond Quote: “Violence is Black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years worth of education.”

10. “Violence is Black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years worth of education.”

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Julian Bond Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Julian Bond Quote: “Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.”

12. “Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.”

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Julian Bond Quote: “You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.”

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

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

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

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Julian Bond Quote: “Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.”

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

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Julian Bond Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Julian Bond

Julian Bond Quote: “If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don’t tell them they can’t be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can’t let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone.”

17. “If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don’t tell them they can’t be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can’t let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone.”

— Julian Bond

Julian Bond Quote: “People see America through particular lenses, either their profession, their race or their gender. So the party that speaks to our racial perceptions and offers solutions to the racial difficulties which we face is the party that’s going to be rewarded with our votes.”

18. “People see America through particular lenses, either their profession, their race or their gender. So the party that speaks to our racial perceptions and offers solutions to the racial difficulties which we face is the party that’s going to be rewarded with our votes.”

— Julian Bond

Julian Bond Quote: “Marriage is a civil right. If you don’t want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can’t say they can’t marry in your city.”

19. “Marriage is a civil right. If you don’t want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can’t say they can’t marry in your city.”

— Julian Bond

Julian Bond Quote: “I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.”

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

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Julian Bond Quote: “Ever since I’ve become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.”

21. “Ever since I’ve become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.”

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Julian Bond Quote: “I’ve appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980.”

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

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Julian Bond Quote: “I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years.”

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

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Julian Bond Quote: “We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes.”

24. “We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes.”

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Julian Bond Quote: “Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.”

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

— Julian Bond

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