The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore.
BILL AYERSI didn’t kill innocent people.
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Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.
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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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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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[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.
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I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.
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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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I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero – I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.
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Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President – that was exhilarating.
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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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We’re actually saying, here’s a principle that I’d like to arc toward. That’s a very different role in life. I didn’t expect [Barack] Obama to go to the root of things. I didn’t expect him to have a principled position on anything. I mean, just pay some moderate attention to the guy.
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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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It’s amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.
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If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.
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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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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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