Frankly, the gay movement on the ground has been one of the great propulsive things that has made politicians do what they do.
BILL AYERSThere was a sense of palpable relief that George [W.] Bush was leaving and that the Republicans had slipped back and that was a wonderful feeling.
More Bill Ayers Quotes
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I haven’t been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I’m not silent.
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The way it happened was that we were advocating for a strike that we advocated that the faculty should strike in solidarity with the Vietnamese struggle.
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I find some unity with Ron Paul.
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The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.
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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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Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.
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I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.
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One of the things that happened that I think is noteworthy, my parents were pretty tolerant people given their position in society.
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Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.
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I wasn’t part of John Kennedy’s vision of the world, or Lyndon Johnson’s. I thought of them as anti-Communist imperial monsters.
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Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
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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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I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
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It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips – these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys is in favor of slavery, right?
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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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