I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.
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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Terrorists destroy randomly.
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I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
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Imperialism or globalization – I don’t have to care what it’s called to hate it.
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Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek the presidency again. He would go to Paris and end the war in Vietnam. Well we were ecstatic.
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Being arrested that also changed everything for me because I was suddenly seeing America from a different perspective all together. I did a couple of weeks in a county jail.
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I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he’s been elected.
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I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.
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When you go into a college of education you’ve got aspirations of making a difference in people’s lives, of loving children, of working with kids, but none of that is affirmed in your college of education.
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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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I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.
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I wasn’t part of John Kennedy’s vision of the world, or Lyndon Johnson’s. I thought of them as anti-Communist imperial monsters.
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I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I’d been more unifying, I wish I’d been more principled.
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Education is a right, it’s a journey, it’s a process, and it’s something we have to stand for, as hard as it is.
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I didn’t kill innocent people.
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