Frederick Douglass ran a primary campaign against [Abraham Lincoln] the second time around, in 1864. They hated him. Why’d they hate him? Because he said things like “I believe in white supremacy.”
BILL AYERSI proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base – those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.
More Bill Ayers Quotes
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It’s amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.
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I spoke at the University of Georgia, and a whole contingent of Tea Party people in Hell’s Angels regalia came in and sat in the front and scowled at me while I gave my talk.
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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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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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[Barack Obama] was running for Senate and he’s saying, I’m not for gay marriage because I’m a Christian. Jump off a bridge! I mean what the hell are you talking about? You know,
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I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
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The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.
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I didn’t kill innocent people.
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Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
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I came back to Ann Harbor, got caught up with people who were much more sophisticated than I, and it was an exciting time because my eyes were opening and that’s always exciting and Michigan is the place where we had the first teach-in against the war.
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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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Where’s the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows.
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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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Terrorists destroy randomly.
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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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