Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.
From Julian Bond
The First Amendment means everything to me.
I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
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.
As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.
You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.
The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.
I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980.
I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years.
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