Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year – a small government proposal if ever there was one.
BILL AYERSSo 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.
More Bill Ayers Quotes
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I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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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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It’s the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.
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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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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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[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.
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I find some unity with Ron Paul.
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I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.
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People camped out at his house, and wondering who’s coming to visit, who’s going to be the Secretary of State – that all struck me as inane and stupid.
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That’s in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn’t work, but it’s very hard to predict what will work.
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I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.
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Without a doubt. It’s woven into our DNA in a very deep way and so to kind of be smacked in the face with the hypocrisy of the America that we were sold was a liberating and harsh experience.
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Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.
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The president of the University said that night, congratulations to you the students, you’ve won a great victory, now the war will end. And I’m certain that he believed it that night and I believed it and we went away happy. Four days later, Martin Luther King was assassinated.
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The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
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