As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
-- Julian Bond, (Jan 14 1940-2015), US civil rights activist, congressman; He has been an active participant in the movements for civil rights, economic justice, and peace, and an aggressive spokesman for the disinherited.