I haven’t been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I’m not silent.
BILL AYERSKill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.
More Bill Ayers Quotes
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In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying “I’m sorry,” is that there’s so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.
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“We all hated the war in Vietnam.” Well, it was easy to hate the war in Vietnam 40 years on.
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If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.
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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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We should open our eyes, see what’s in front of us, and act.
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Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don’t have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.
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Politicians are conservative by nature.
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Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.
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Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, “How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?” It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer–a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.
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The US is indeed a terrorist nation. …It’s also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.
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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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So that’s kind of amazing. But he was offered a cabinet post by Eisenhower in his second term. So he was moderate Republican. But if you asked him, he would’ve said, “I don’t have any politics. I’m a business person.” Mainstream, the American view, as he understood it.
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The truth is that the antiwar movement was powered by the working class. The students were the ones that got the media and so forth, but it was the soldiers on the ground who really energized the antiwar movement in the late Sixties.
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All of us pursued our own passions and our own interests. One of my brothers was filmmaker. One of my brothers was a teacher. My sister was a librarian.
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I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.
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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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Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.
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The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore.
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Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
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This 1965. We went to trial on our city. We were obviously borrowing tactics and strategy from the Black freedom movement, and we were echoing their approach to things.
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So I had the great advantage of being able to play up to the older kids and play down to the younger kids and I think that’s part of what propelled me to become a teacher at some point in my life. But it was a comfortable childhood. It was a privileged childhood.
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I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base – those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.
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What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.
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Nixon probably was a nice guy.
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Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
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People camped out at his house, and wondering who’s coming to visit, who’s going to be the Secretary of State – that all struck me as inane and stupid.
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