The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
BILL AYERSAgitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren’t bound by those rules. We’re not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?
More Bill Ayers Quotes
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There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the ’50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.
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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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Where’s the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows.
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We have sex education – I’m for it, I’m not against it. But any curriculum should recognize that it’s young people’s job to invent it themselves. You’re not going to teach them; they’re going to reinvent it.
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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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We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can’t the politicians respond to that? Because they are the rich. And they are beholden to the rich. It’s a captured system.
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Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
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We should open our eyes, see what’s in front of us, and act.
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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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When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.
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I’m different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I’m thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still there. They’re not different.
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In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don’t try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of us went into business. None of us became powerful people like that.
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Education is a right, it’s a journey, it’s a process, and it’s something we have to stand for, as hard as it is.
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Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
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Education is the motor-force of revolution.
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