The world lost a force for good last Saturday, when Julian Bond died. For those of you who don’t recognize his name, he was a civil rights activist, former NAACP chairman, educator, politician, and leader. Many people disagreed with his stand against the Vietnam war and against discrimination, but he lived according to his conscious. An interesting note is that he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives but, because he was Black, was not allowed to serve until after taking his case to the the Supreme Court and winning.
It’s only appropriate, then, that today’s Thursday Thought comes from him:
