Julian Bond: “I will be pleased to give your request every consideration during conference deliberations with the House.”

All Americans ought to enjoy civil rights, and whatever the court does today, we are going to move a step closer to everyone enjoying these rights.

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.

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.

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