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30 quotes by Bill Ayers

William Charles "Bill" Ayers (born December 26, 1944) is an American elementary education theorist and a former leader in the counterculture movement that opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for his 1960s radical activism as well as his current work in education reform, curriculum, and instruction. In 1969 he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group that conducted a campaign of...
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Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.

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It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

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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.

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I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

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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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Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

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I have an addiction to caffeine.

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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 find some unity with Ron Paul.

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I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.

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I was involved in the anti-war movement.

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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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Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

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