I didn’t kill innocent people.
BILL AYERSWhat 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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Terrorists destroy randomly.
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When [my dad] was at the University of Michigan, my mom was a social-worker. As he rose, he voted for [Adlai] Stevenson initially. Then he voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. Then he kept voting Republican until he voted for Barack Obama.
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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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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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Well, first of all I think that we have to be careful with terms like the working class, obviously. When [Karl] Marx wrote about the working class he was writing about something much more bounded than we’re talking about.
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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 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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I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.
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Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
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This man is a war criminal.” My younger brother and I, he was freshman and I was a sophomore, got caught up in the debates that were swirling around the center of campus and the young Trotskyists had put out a fact sheet on Vietnam that was phenomenal.
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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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I haven’t been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I’m not silent.
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There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were – “a real threat,” you know? He thought so and we thought so and we were buddies in that regard.
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Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
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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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