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Julian Bond

"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."

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"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."
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"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia."
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"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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"Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision."
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"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education."
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"I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years."
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"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."
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