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This man is a war criminal.” My younger brother and I, he was freshman and I was a sophomore, got caught up in the debates that were swirling around the center of campus and the young Trotskyists had put out a fact sheet on Vietnam that was phenomenal.

Bill Ayers

If the logic of capitalism is “expand or die,” then either it has to die or the world has to die.
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Capitalism Logic World
What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.
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Community Needs Teaching
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
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Compassion Kids Parenting
The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.
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Goes Ideas Teaching
Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
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Excited Narcissism Writing
I haven’t been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I’m not silent.
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Lectures Silent Writing
Everyone who knew [Barack] Obama from being in Hyde Park knew he was the smartest guy in any room he walked into; a decent, compassionate, lovely person; pragmatic, middle-of-the-road and ambitious.
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Ambitious Guy Lovely
If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church, your pastor, your parents, common sense, tradition, everything. You would have been against everything.
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Common Law Sense White
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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Assisted Congratulations Kings War
It’s not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it’s the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson.
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Black Movement
I don’t regret setting bombs.
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Bombs Regret Settings
Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President – that was exhilarating.
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Country Exhilarating Long
I’m wary of government. Part of [the Tea Party] impulse is to dislike and be worried about the rich. I’m that way too. So I don’t find them to be as atrocious as most people do, as your liberals do. I’m not a liberal.
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Government Party People
Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don’t have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.
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Activism Art Contradictory
I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
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Intellectual Intelligence Learning
I’m not disappointed in [Barack] Obama. He said who he is; he’s doing what he said he would do.
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Barack Disappointed Said

This man is a war criminal.” My younger brother and I, he was freshman and I was a sophomore, got caught up in the debates that were swirling around the center of campus and the young Trotskyists had put out a fact sheet on Vietnam that was phenomenal.

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This man is a war criminal.” My younger brother and I, he was freshman and I was a sophomore, got caught up in the debates that were swirling around the center of campus and the young Trotskyists had put out a fact sheet on Vietnam that was phenomenal.

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