I don't think of myself as a particularly nostalgic person. Bill Ayers More Quotes by Bill Ayers More Quotes From Bill Ayers Nixon probably was a nice guy. Bill Ayers nice-guy guy nice I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas. Bill Ayers driven structure ideas I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans. Bill Ayers barack wells What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities. Bill Ayers community teaching needs I didn't kill innocent people. Bill Ayers innocent people When you go into a college of education you've got aspirations of making a difference in people's lives, of loving children, of working with kids, but none of that is affirmed in your college of education. Then you go working in schools, especially in places like New York City and Chicago that I'm most familiar with, and you find these huge aspirations are beaten out of you in a very systematic way - and still people persevere. Bill Ayers new-york children school Education is a right, it's a journey, it's a process, and it's something we have to stand for, as hard as it is. Bill Ayers hard journey process The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on. Bill Ayers teaching goes-on ideas I see [Lyndon] Johnson as the war in Vietnam, and the invasion of the Dominican Republic and so on. So I'm not a liberal in that sense, because i think of liberals as part of that establishment. Bill Ayers vietnam war thinking 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. Bill Ayers lovely ambitious guy 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. Bill Ayers guy imagination thinking 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? What was that? They changed the world by changing themselves. Now is that over? No. Is the civil rights movement over? No. These movements have not accomplished what they set out to accomplish. Bill Ayers rights class men Where's the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows. The day before every revolution that's ever happened, that revolution was impossible. The day before Rosa Parks, that was impossible. The day after, it was inevitable. Bill Ayers parks revolution thinking Politicians are conservative by nature. Bill Ayers conservative politician We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can't the politicians respond to that? Because they are the rich. And they are beholden to the rich. It's a captured system. Bill Ayers rich three want I found the place where I was beaten bloody forty years earlier and dragged to jail and that made me cry. When the family came out, that made me cry, and the reason I had a hard time leaving Grant Park was that to see a million people like that, feeling the way that million people felt, was so exhilarating. Bill Ayers hard-times jail years I do think [Barack Obama's] strategy for re-election is so misguided. He's counting on the Republicans to self-destruct, and they might, you know, but they might not. So he might be a one-term president. Bill Ayers president self thinking I'm not disappointed in [Barack] Obama. He said who he is; he's doing what he said he would do. Bill Ayers disappointed barack said 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? Bill Ayers guy real people [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, I mean, what's he doing now? He's evolving. Evolving? Well, evolve for Christ's sake! And this is a guy - the whole gay community, and the whole environmental community and all these other people said, he's our guy. Bill Ayers christian running mean
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