I’m writing this book right now called Pallin’ Around, and the subtitle is: “Talking to the Tea Party.” And frankly I find talking to the Tea Party exhilarating, I love it.
BILL AYERSThe rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see.
More Bill Ayers Quotes
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Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
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Frankly, the gay movement on the ground has been one of the great propulsive things that has made politicians do what they do.
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I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.
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The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see.
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I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.
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Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.
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This man is a war criminal.” My younger brother and I, he was freshman and I was a sophomore, got caught up in the debates that were swirling around the center of campus and the young Trotskyists had put out a fact sheet on Vietnam that was phenomenal.
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It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips – these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys is in favor of slavery, right?
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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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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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The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.
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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 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.
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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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In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying “I’m sorry,” is that there’s so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.
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