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BILL AYERSWhat were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.
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His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.
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Agitators, 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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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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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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[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’m different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I’m thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still there. They’re not different.
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Imperialism or globalization – I don’t have to care what it’s called to hate it.
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Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.
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Terrorists destroy randomly.
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In a wild and diverse democracy each of us should be trying to talk to lots and lots and lots of people outside of our own kind of comfort zone and community, and that injunction goes even further for political leaders.
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What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.
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Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical. By the end he was calling for revolution. People don’t know this because they go to too many prayer breakfasts on his birthday.
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One 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.
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“We all hated the war in Vietnam.” Well, it was easy to hate the war in Vietnam 40 years on.
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One hundred years from now, we’ll all be dead. It’s hard to believe. One hundred years from now, everyone we see every day will be gone.
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