Julian Bond Activist Quotations

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.

And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

Part of my task is to modernize the institution and to hasten a kind of quickness, instead of this ponderous way we have of dealing with things.

We quickly became aware that this was bigger than we thought and that we would have to dig deeper and do more. And we're still doing it today.

First, this middle class I think owes its existence to both affirmative action and the expansion of opportunity for people with skills and training.

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.