I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.
BILL AYERSBeginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year – a small government proposal if ever there was one.
More Bill Ayers Quotes
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We have sex education – I’m for it, I’m not against it. But any curriculum should recognize that it’s young people’s job to invent it themselves. You’re not going to teach them; they’re going to reinvent it.
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Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.
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Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don’t have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.
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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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I lasted a year and a half at Michigan before I dropped out and joined the merchant marines and I was a merchant marine for my sophomore year then I came back to Michigan.
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I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.
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One-hundred facts about Vietnam and we studied the fact sheet and got in to these arguments and it was fantastic, and I remember one moment when we heard two students saying don’t talk to those guys, meaning my brother and me.
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Your body’s always going through changes. It’s fattening or thinning or wrinkling or blotching, and the only thing you really have control over is putting some decoration on it.
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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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When someone who’s always been in your life is gone, it’s a stunning adjustment of your own identity.
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Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
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It’s amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.
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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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Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.
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In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we’re told these guys are lazy, they’re uneducated, they don’t care, they don’t have any political instincts – just like the working class in America, apparently – and then suddenly what the hell happened?
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