If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.
BILL AYERSPart of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting – it’s exciting to be in that dialogue.
More Bill Ayers Quotes
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I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.
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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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Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
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I find some unity with Ron Paul.
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It’s the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.
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To be a human being is to suffer. But it’s the unnecessary suffering, it’s the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.
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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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One of the things that’s complicated about writing anything is that it’s an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.
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Education is the motor-force of revolution.
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It felt to me like I was living my life in a way that didn’t make mockery of my values. That’s what I intended to do. So, that became a very radicalizing proposition for me.
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I don’t buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I’m an intergenerational person.
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Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.
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I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn’t do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?
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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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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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