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. Bill Ayers More Quotes by Bill Ayers More Quotes From Bill Ayers Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. Bill Ayers proposal government years We have sex education - I'm for it, I'm not against it. But any curriculum should recognize that it's young people's job to invent it themselves. You're not going to teach them; they're going to reinvent it. Bill Ayers jobs sex people I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person. Bill Ayers mythology persons thinking There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black people in the South don't want an education, they don't want to vote, they're simple people, they don't want this, they don't want that. Bill Ayers black simple people [John] McCain seemed to be winking to the Right, and [Barack] Obama seemed to be winking to the Left. Neither one of them - if McCain had been elected we'd still be where we are on gay rights. Bill Ayers winking gay rights In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don't try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of us went into business. None of us became powerful people like that. 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. Bill Ayers brother teacher children 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 Ayers regret determination lying We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there's more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from the fantasies and the mythology that we create around ourselves, or we're doomed to kind of innocently blunder into every country in the world and murder people. Bill Ayers believe country people In a wild and diverse democracy each of us should be trying to talk to lots and lots and lots of people outside of our own kind of comfort zone and community, and that injunction goes even further for political leaders. They should talk to everyone, they should listen to everyone, and at the end of the day they should have a mind of their own. Bill Ayers community should-have people If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die. Bill Ayers capitalism logic world I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. Bill Ayers silent lectures writing The first thing I did [in Michigan] was join a picket line of a pizzeria in Ann Harbor in 1963 that didn't allow African Americans to eat there. Bill Ayers michigan african-american lines There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs. Bill Ayers privilege political ideas Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable. Bill Ayers inevitable revolution impossible Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war. Bill Ayers war two people I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in. Bill Ayers mother heart thinking I dropped out in '64. And I came back to Michigan, in '65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam. Bill Ayers michigan vietnam heard If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the literature of anti-communism, it's every bit as dogmatic. Bill Ayers chill literature hands One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it. Bill Ayers letting-go writing world The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore. Bill Ayers independent humanity people
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