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There's like a million words per page, so progress feels soooo slow. But still, Bond's words still resonate. Truly a radical, truly brilliant and eloquent.

Some of these speeches could be given today without changing a god damned word.

Howard Zinn was one of Bond's professors? John Lewis was chair of the SNCC while Bond was communications director there? MLK wrote in support of Bond to the Georgia state government?

What a confluence of great minds.

Bond has a way with words that others likely envy. The way he clearly and authoritatively likened segregation in spite of Supreme Court rulings to a jaunt toward totalitarianism is still relevant.

This book is introduced by its editor as Julian Bond in his own words and not a biography. It may not be a biography in any typical sense, but it is certainly a political autobiography that Bond never sat down to write but was instead pieced together by editor Michael G. Long. Given the background information Long provides before each piece and the way the pieces flow chronologically, it certainly feels biographical.

12 pages of prefaces and introduction to now be on page 1. Let's do this.