Word: bond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another wave of applause carried Bond to the podium. Pulling a folded manuscript from his pocket, he casually looked out over the audience and remarked, in what sounded like a whisper, "Well, that's the obituary...now for the post mortem." The audience could relax now--Bond had acknowledged their presence...
...Bond's speech was brief, almost cursory. But it sat well with the audience which had come to see Julian Bond in the flesh more than anything else. In terse language and with an economy of emotion--now a Bond trademark--he stated matter-of-factly: "With 4 out of 5 people in this country better off today than any others in the rest of the world, we still have black people in this country not only hungry but getting hungrier, and a welfare system that taxes the poor more heavily than the rich...
...Even as Bond stood at the podium silently pausing for an instant, many in the packed room were already aware of what he would say next. "Our victories and our hope," he reflected, "have promised much and produced little...
...Bond's reflections and summary were not a terminal prognosis; they were a point of departure. he began to talk about what had to be done from this point on; and he sounded like a Julian Bond of the Movement's best and worst times--the tactician, plotting new directions, tackling the problem head...
...have to have not only protest but alternatives, at every level of politics," Bond said. "It's going to take everyone that can be enlisted, everyone that's sick of the politics of today--the politics that has kept us looking over our shoulders instead of at the road ahead." He spoke of organizing people at the local level, on campuses and in communities, of mobilizing old forms of political power and looking for new ones...