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Interview with Julian Bond: 'We need to organize!' (1998)
.... If you think of progressives (in the plural), of necessity you're talking about large numbers of people. And you can't have large numbers of people unless you put different constituencies together. You have to think about the faith community, minority communities, working people. Sometimes people belong to all three. And we need to bring all three together if we want to build toward a majority. Alone, we'll make some progress, but not a lot ...... Too often, we think that if we announce something, it's the same as doing it. It isn't. We have to organize people — from mobilizing people for marches, to long union campaigns. Why have we lost this? Well, it's something we always knew, just not something we always do ...
We can never match our opponents dollar for dollar. If we can't, we have to match them body for dollar. In others words, if we can't outspend them, we have to out-work them. And that means organizing ...
My inspiration for the future is all the young people who are doing so many things. And the old people, who won't stop. And the certainty that we're right, and right does prevail in the end. It may take years, but right does prevail.
http://www.southernstudies.org/2015/08/interview-with-julian-bond-we-need-to-organize.html
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