Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.
BILL AYERSImperialism or globalization – I don’t have to care what it’s called to hate it.
More Bill Ayers Quotes
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There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were – “a real threat,” you know? He thought so and we thought so and we were buddies in that regard.
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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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[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.
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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.
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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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I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.
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Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.
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Two months after that, Kennedy was assassinated. Two months after that, Henry Kissinger emerged from the swamp he was living in at Harvard with a plan to expand the war.
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When someone who’s always been in your life is gone, it’s a stunning adjustment of your own identity.
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Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
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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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So I had the great advantage of being able to play up to the older kids and play down to the younger kids and I think that’s part of what propelled me to become a teacher at some point in my life. But it was a comfortable childhood. It was a privileged childhood.
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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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I would say for the young: Don’t be straight jacketed by ideology. Don’t be driven by a structure of ideas.
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It wasn’t [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being wheeled by her son waving a big American flag, and then seeing a guy with his baby in his arms saying,
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