I don’t buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I’m an intergenerational person.
BILL AYERSOne question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don’t have a knee-jerk kind of 1930s thing about we must build the unions and that’s the way to the future.
More Bill Ayers Quotes
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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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My father lived with me the last five years of his life and passed away of Alzheimer’s, and at that point he was saying to anyone who would listen,
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Education is the motor-force of revolution.
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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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To me, activism requires you to try very hard to open your eyes to the world as it is. See as much as you can, knowing that whatever you see is going to be partial. That you possess a partial consciousness in an infinite and expanding universe.
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And afterwards the head of the group got to the microphone and said, I’m surprised that I agree with almost everything you said, but I’m worried that you’re a big government guy.
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Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
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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’m not disappointed in [Barack] Obama. He said who he is; he’s doing what he said he would do.
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It was the Democratic Party, it was the Presidential election. We elected a president [Barack Obama]; we didn’t elect a king. So all the speculation in the next three months.
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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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Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.
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I have an addiction to caffeine.
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Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.
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I find some unity with Ron Paul.
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