Whether or not the working class came to Chicago in 1969 in the Days of Rage is not a measure of their commitment to stopping the war or to seeing life in certain way. There were very few of us who were there, and those of us that were had an illusion about ourselves.

Bill Ayers

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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.

car home people

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.

half past world

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon. by Bill Ayers

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.

pentagon ideals

It was the Democratic Party, it was the Presidential election. We elected a president [Barack Obama]; we didn't elect a king. So all the speculation in the next three months - people camped out at his house, and wondering who's coming to visit, who's going to be the Secretary of State - that all struck me as inane and stupid.

party stupid kings

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

parenting compassion kids

I get up every morning and think, today I'm going to make a difference. Today I'm going to end capitalism. Today I'm going to make a revolution. I go to bed every night disappointed but I'm back to work tomorrow, and that's the only way you can do it.

morning night thinking

I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.

should hero thinking

The great example, the killer example in history, is of course Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. Read his speeches. Read the debates. Wendell Phillips called him "the great slaver from Illinois."

illinois speech example

The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building... by Bill Ayers

The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.

finals path war

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country. by Bill Ayers

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

bird country america

I don't regret setting bombs. by Bill Ayers

I don't regret setting bombs.

settings bombs regret

Frederick Douglass ran a primary campaign against [Abraham Lincoln] the second time around, in 1864. They hated him. Why'd they hate him? Because he said things like "I believe in white supremacy."

hate white believe

The idea that you live your life in phases - I've never bought that. I feel like I'm the same person who sat in at the draft board in 1965, I'm the same person who joined a fraternity, I'm the same person who got an MFA at Bennington, and I'm the same person who founded Weather Underground. My values are still intact.

live-your-life weather ideas

I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capital... by Bill Ayers

I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism.

morning today thinking

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a... by Bill Ayers

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

way-to-live life needs

Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961. by Bill Ayers

Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.

democratic-society democratic students

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

issues teaching justice

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.

defeat victory war

I was indicted on two federal conspiracies. My wife was on the Ten Most Wanted list. That's what fascism was going to look like. That's what it did look like.

wife two looks

His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.

community kings book