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Bill Ayers

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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Frankly Ground Politician Propulsive
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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Different Principles Thinking
When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.
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Allure Communism Unions
This 1965. We went to trial on our city. We were obviously borrowing tactics and strategy from the Black freedom movement, and we were echoing their approach to things.
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Black Cities Trials
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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Home President
I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero – I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.
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Hero Should Thinking
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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Change Hard Social Work
Education is the motor-force of revolution.
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Force Motor Revolution
In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we’re told these guys are lazy, they’re uneducated, they don’t care, they don’t have any political instincts – just like the working class in America, apparently – and then suddenly what the hell happened?
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Class Happened Men Political Rights Street
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
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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Assassinated Emerged Expand Living War
[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
Even there, [Barack] Obama’s generals, his Pentagon, they’re telling him what to do. And the force for gay rights is inevitable. And you can say Obama will help us, and maybe he will, but only if we have something on the ground that will make him help us.
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Country Gay Movement President Rights
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
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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Around Campus Criminal Freshman Mna Sophomore Swirling
Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting – it’s exciting to be in that dialogue.
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Fun Real Teaching

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