It doesn't mean we think that, automatically, people are going to stop using this offensive word. But we want the world to know that it is offensive, and it doesn't matter who says it, whether it comes out of black lips or white lips.
Julian Bond discusses the NAACP's stance on the use of the 'N' word and its offensive nature.
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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.
Any time a group of people are denied rights and struggle for their rights, that's a civil rights movement.
Full equality, it means enjoying all of the rights that everybody else in the country enjoys.
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