The great example, the killer example in history, is of course Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. Read his speeches. Read the debates. Wendell Phillips called him “the great slaver from Illinois.”
BILL AYERSI think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.
More Bill Ayers Quotes
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Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.
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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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[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.
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Frankly, the gay movement on the ground has been one of the great propulsive things that has made politicians do what they do.
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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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Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.
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What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.
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I didn’t kill innocent people.
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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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I mean, what’s he doing now? He’s evolving. Evolving? Well, evolve for Christ’s sake! And this is a guy – the whole gay community, and the whole environmental community and all these other people said, he’s our guy.
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The world spends two trillion dollars a year on military, and of that two trillion the United States spends one trillion. We have a bigger military than the rest of the world put together. We have 150 foreign military bases.
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[Barack] Obama doesn’t disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I’m a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.
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I’d been arrested many times by then. I’d been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968].
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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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I’m writing this book right now called Pallin’ Around, and the subtitle is: “Talking to the Tea Party.” And frankly I find talking to the Tea Party exhilarating, I love it.
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