The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.
BILL AYERSI voted for Obama and I was delighted that he’s been elected.
More Bill Ayers Quotes
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I would say for the young: Don’t be straight jacketed by ideology. Don’t be driven by a structure of ideas.
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Politicians are conservative by nature.
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In a world as out of balance as this world, everyone can find something to do. And the question isn’t can you do everything; the question is, can you do anything?
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The president of the University said that night, congratulations to you the students, you’ve won a great victory, now the war will end. And I’m certain that he believed it that night and I believed it and we went away happy. Four days later, Martin Luther King was assassinated.
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It wasn’t [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being wheeled by her son waving a big American flag, and then seeing a guy with his baby in his arms saying,
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I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.
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Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek the presidency again. He would go to Paris and end the war in Vietnam. Well we were ecstatic.
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I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero – I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.
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Without a doubt. It’s woven into our DNA in a very deep way and so to kind of be smacked in the face with the hypocrisy of the America that we were sold was a liberating and harsh experience.
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I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.
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If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life – you might want to – when I read these to my students, they think it’s Malcom X because it’s so radical.
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We’re actually saying, here’s a principle that I’d like to arc toward. That’s a very different role in life. I didn’t expect [Barack] Obama to go to the root of things. I didn’t expect him to have a principled position on anything. I mean, just pay some moderate attention to the guy.
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The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.
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One of the things that’s complicated about writing anything is that it’s an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.
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[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.
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