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If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life – you might want to – when I read these to my students, they think it’s Malcom X because it’s so radical.

Bill Ayers

I was indicted on two federal conspiracies. My wife was on the Ten Most Wanted list. That’s what fascism was going to look like. That’s what it did look like.
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Conspiracies Looks Two Wife
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
The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.
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Goes Ideas Teaching
When you go into a college of education you’ve got aspirations of making a difference in people’s lives, of loving children, of working with kids, but none of that is affirmed in your college of education.
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Children Country School
Even there, [Barack] Obama’s generals, his Pentagon, they’re telling him what to do. And the force for gay rights is inevitable. And you can say Obama will help us, and maybe he will, but only if we have something on the ground that will make him help us.
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Country Gay Movement President Rights
I didn’t kill innocent people.
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Innocent Kill People
[Students for a Democratic Society] was on many campuses and it was a powerful organization. It was founded by Tom Hayden, who passed away very recently.
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Organization Powerful Reading
[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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Campaigns Compromise Politician
[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
It’s the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn’t on the agenda.
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Agendas Height War
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
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Compassion Kids Parenting
We should open our eyes, see what’s in front of us, and act.
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Eye Fronts Should
I don’t know that I ever bought into the “American dream.” I was a child of privilege. I grew up in the ’50s and it was a quiet time in America, at least on the surface and I grew up in a kind of feathery bed of privilege.
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America Children Dream
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
I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.
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Hopeless Mother Suffering
I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.
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If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life – you might want to – when I read these to my students, they think it’s Malcom X because it’s so radical.

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If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life – you might want to – when I read these to my students, they think it’s Malcom X because it’s so radical.