Julian Bond — American Activist born on January 14, 1940, died on August 15, 2015

Horace Julian Bond was an American social activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement, politician, professor, and writer. While a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he helped to establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee... (wikipedia)

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.
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.
The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.
There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.