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Education is the motor-force of revolution.

Bill Ayers

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
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Bird Century Country
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.
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Exhilarating Frankly Love Talking Writing
After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, “You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago.” That was the limit of my imagination.
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Guy Imagination Thinking
The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.
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Goes Ideas Teaching
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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Country Couple Jail Suddenly
Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don’t have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.
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Activism Art Contradictory
Where’s the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows.
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Parks Revolution Thinking
There was a sense of palpable relief that George [W.] Bush was leaving and that the Republicans had slipped back and that was a wonderful feeling.
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Feelings Leaving relief
My father lived with me the last five years of his life and passed away of Alzheimer’s, and at that point he was saying to anyone who would listen,
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Father Hate Listen War
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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Car Home People
I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.
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Less Shared Should Views
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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Children Fire Military Trillion World
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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Country Law Military
Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.
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Driven Parent Tolerant
I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.
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Air Book Confident Wall
If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life – you might want to – when I read these to my students, they think it’s Malcom X because it’s so radical.
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Country King Thinking
I didn’t kill innocent people.
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Innocent Kill People
I get up every morning and think…today I’m going to end capitalism.
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Morning Thinking Today
Everyone who knew [Barack] Obama from being in Hyde Park knew he was the smartest guy in any room he walked into; a decent, compassionate, lovely person; pragmatic, middle-of-the-road and ambitious.
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Ambitious Guy Lovely
That’s what [Abraham] Lincoln said. “The white man will always be above the black man. I don’t want them to run for office, or have political rights, or vote. I want them to go back to Africa.”
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Men Rights Running
[Barack Obama] was running for Senate and he’s saying, I’m not for gay marriage because I’m a Christian. Jump off a bridge! I mean what the hell are you talking about? You know,
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Christian Mean Running
All of us pursued our own passions and our own interests. One of my brothers was filmmaker. One of my brothers was a teacher. My sister was a librarian.
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All Filmmakers Librarian One Teachers
I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he’s been elected.
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Country Delighted Elected President
In a world as out of balance as this world, everyone can find something to do. And the question isn’t can you do everything; the question is, can you do anything?
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Balance This World World
Education is the motor-force of revolution.
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Force Motor Revolution
Frederick Douglass ran a primary campaign against [Abraham Lincoln] the second time around, in 1864. They hated him. Why’d they hate him? Because he said things like “I believe in white supremacy.”
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Believe Hate White
[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.
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Ends Kings Luther

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