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.
BILL AYERSI 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.
More Bill Ayers Quotes
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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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Nixon probably was a nice guy.
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Education is the motor-force of revolution.
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One of the things that’s complicated about writing anything is that it’s an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.
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One-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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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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I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
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I’m different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I’m thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still there. They’re not different.
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Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
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[Students for a Democratic Society] was on many campuses and it was a powerful organization. It was founded by Tom Hayden, who passed away very recently.
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I haven’t been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I’m not silent.
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Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.
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So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan’s home.
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Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
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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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