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That’s in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn’t work, but it’s very hard to predict what will work.

Bill Ayers

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year – a small government proposal if ever there was one.
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Government Proposal Years
Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
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Excited Narcissism Writing
[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.
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Ends Kings Luther
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
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
Nixon probably was a nice guy.
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Guy Nice Probably
I don’t think saying “I was wrong here, I was wrong there” absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you into heaven.
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Absolves Heaven Thinking
Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
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Day Ideals Pentagon
I get up every morning and think, today I’m going to make a difference. Today I’m going to end capitalism. Today I’m going to make a revolution. I go to bed every night disappointed but I’m back to work tomorrow, and that’s the only way you can do it.
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Morning Night Thinking
Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
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Impossible Inevitable Revolution
“I didn’t want her to miss tonight! I wanted to be able to tell her!” And to see all these people, a Hispanic cop dancing with an old white woman, wow! I mean, that’s the world I want to live in, and because it’s the world I want to live in, I had a hard time leaving.
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Dancing Hispanic People Tonight Wanted Woman World
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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Insane People Stupid Wondering
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
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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Ideas Political Privilege
That’s in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn’t work, but it’s very hard to predict what will work.
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Change Hard Social Work
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

That’s in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn’t work, but it’s very hard to predict what will work.

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