I find some unity with Ron Paul.
BILL AYERSWriting a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
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I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.
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The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.
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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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[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.
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Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
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You will be raising these kids in your mind your whole life. And they will change you. Your little contribution to it – twenty years from now, they’ll be marching off into other things and that’s still the legacy you leave.
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But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.
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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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The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
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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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I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.
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They were pretty interesting about being interesting able to look at their children and think oh my children know things and they gave us a lot of sense of our own agency, and that may be a kind of a ruling class trait.
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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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One question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don’t have a knee-jerk kind of 1930s thing about we must build the unions and that’s the way to the future.
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Education is the motor-force of revolution.
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