Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.
BILL AYERSYou will be raising these kids in your mind your whole life. And they will change you. Your little contribution to it – twenty years from now, they’ll be marching off into other things and that’s still the legacy you leave.
More Bill Ayers Quotes
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Frankly, the gay movement on the ground has been one of the great propulsive things that has made politicians do what they do.
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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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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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I get up every morning and think…today I’m going to end capitalism.
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I don’t think saying “I was wrong here, I was wrong there” absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you into heaven.
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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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Without a doubt. It’s woven into our DNA in a very deep way and so to kind of be smacked in the face with the hypocrisy of the America that we were sold was a liberating and harsh experience.
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Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.
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I said something idiotic like, as [William] Shakespeare says, “Action is eloquence,” and the judge just frowned at me and gave me a couple weeks in jail.
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I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.
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Education is the motor-force of revolution.
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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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Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, “How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?” It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer–a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.
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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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Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.
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