Bill Ayers quotes
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“Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”
-- Bill AyersSource : "An Unconditional Embrace". Interview with Gabriel Lyon, www.tolerance.org. Spring 1998.
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“You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.”
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“I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism.”
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“It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.”
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“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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“The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves my thoughts for long. The antiwar movement in all its commitment, all its sacrifice and determination, could not stop the violence unleashed against Vietnam. And therein lies cause for real regret.”
-- Bill AyersSource : "The Real Bill Ayers". Article by William Ayers, www.nytimes.com. December 05, 2008.
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“I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.”
-- Bill AyersSource : William Ayers (2009). “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist”, p.114, Beacon Press
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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.”
-- Bill AyersSource : "Bill Ayers: The United States Is the Foremost Threat to World Peace Today". Interview with Kourosh Ziabari, en.farsnews.com. December 06, 2014.
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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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“Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,”
-- Bill AyersSource : Bill Ayers (2002). “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist”, p.264, Beacon Press
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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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“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.”
-- Bill AyersSource : "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen". www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2001.
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“I don't regret setting bombs.”
-- Bill AyersSource : Bill Ayers (2002). “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist”, p.311, Beacon Press
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“I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.”
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“Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.”
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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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“Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.”
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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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“Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.”
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“I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.”
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“Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.”
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“I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.”
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“I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..”
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“But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.”
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“I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.”
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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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“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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“Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.”
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“Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.”
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“I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.”
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“We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.”
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“Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.”
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“The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.”
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“Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.”
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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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“You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.”
-- Bill Ayers
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