Terrorists destroy randomly.
BILL AYERSOne-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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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 would say when I went to Michigan. It started. I got very very involved in civil rights in Ann Harbor right away. Picketing, something I never even knew existed.
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I do think [Barack Obama’s] strategy for re-election is so misguided. He’s counting on the Republicans to self-destruct, and they might, you know, but they might not. So he might be a one-term president.
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I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice.
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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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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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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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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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[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.
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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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My father lived with me the last five years of his life and passed away of Alzheimer’s, and at that point he was saying to anyone who would listen,
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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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Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.
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I lasted a year and a half at Michigan before I dropped out and joined the merchant marines and I was a merchant marine for my sophomore year then I came back to Michigan.
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It’s not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it’s the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson.
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