Julian Bond

Just as we did not allow segregation to be decided state by state.

John Lewis has said it better than anyone could have said it.

Well, I think it is. I mean any time a group of people are denied rights and struggle for their rights, that's a civil rights movement.

I don't think so. I think this -- and African-American communities like every other community in the country, the tide is shifting.

Full equality, it means enjoying all of the rights that everybody else in the country enjoys.

When the president says he's for something, it doesn't mean it is going to happen. It just means we now know what he feels and how he thinks about it.

Any time a group of people are denied rights and struggle for their rights, that's a civil rights movement.

I know the tide is changing. I can see from poll results where the support for same-sex marriage used to be minimal. It grew. It grew and grew.

I don't think so. I think this -- in African-American communities, like every other community in the country, the tide is shifting, people are thinking differently.

Full equality means enjoying all of the rights that everybody else in the country enjoys. If everybody else in the country enjoys rights one, two, three and four, you have got to enjoy those rights too.

Of course, it is exactly the same. It's a right that all Americans have and no reason why gay and lesbian people ought not to have these rights too. These are universal rights.

Well, it's one of the most cynical things I've ever heard of or ever seen spelled out in this way. The idea that these people are just pawns that can be played with, the black people who oppose gay marriage, and the black people who…

I can only go by what I read in the papers or see on TV, that what seemed to happen is this police wannabe followed him, against the orders of the police, got out of his car, confronted him in some way. We don't know what happened then…

Absolutely. Absolutely. As more and more people think, 'Gee, that guy who sits next to me in church, he's gay, and he seems to be OK.'

We ought to be happy that other people, including gays and lesbians, and many other people have imitated the black movement for human rights.

Of course. It is exactly the same. It's a right that all Americans have, and no reason why gay and lesbian people ought not to have these rights, too. These are universal rights.

It's the most -- one of the most cynical things I've ever heard of or seen spelled out in this way.

Gay and lesbian rights are not special rights in any way. It isn't 'special' to be free from discrimination. It is an ordinary, universal entitlement of citizenship.

This is a civil rights issue.

Some people are a little confused. In 30 seconds--50 seconds maybe--let me tell you, this is $2 billion in direct equity that goes to State housing finance programs to produce affordable housing. The funds come from the home moneys in the…

Julian Bond at one point, we said, should younger people be passed the baton of leadership or have to snatch it? And he said, unabashedly, snatch it.

I dispute his statement that there were 6 years of unlawful activity of the President. He said no court will be able to review the illegality; no independent officials have reviewed it. First, it is my understanding, although I was not one…

We have $6,852 on the average Missouri household. Our source for that is National Association of Manufacturers, March 13, 2008. Obviously, these costs are only estimates. When you realize that those States, such as Missouri, which depend…

We said 140 percent. There are various figures that would add $1.44 to $1.45. This one is from the National Association of Manufacturers. I believe the EPA figures say $1.40, $1.45. I can tell the Senator that we are looking at significant…