I find some unity with Ron Paul.
BILL AYERSAgitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren’t bound by those rules. We’re not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?
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Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting – it’s exciting to be in that dialogue.
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That’s what [Abraham] Lincoln said. “The white man will always be above the black man. I don’t want them to run for office, or have political rights, or vote. I want them to go back to Africa.”
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But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.
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Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
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It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips – these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys is in favor of slavery, right?
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In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying “I’m sorry,” is that there’s so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.
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I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.
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I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.
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Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
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There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the ’50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.
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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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Politicians are conservative by nature.
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Can we imagine a different world? I can. That’s a world where work is rational, it’s in the common good, and we’re actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven.
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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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Terrorists destroy randomly.
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