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They were pretty interesting about being interesting able to look at their children and think oh my children know things and they gave us a lot of sense of our own agency, and that may be a kind of a ruling class trait.

Bill Ayers

[Barack] Obama doesn’t disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I’m a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.
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Campaigns Compromise Politician
I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.
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Class Michigan Sources Terrible
Two months after that, Kennedy was assassinated. Two months after that, Henry Kissinger emerged from the swamp he was living in at Harvard with a plan to expand the war.
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Assassinated Emerged Expand Living War
I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.
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Less Shared Should Views
The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.
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Commitment Passion Today
I don’t regret setting bombs.
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Bombs Regret Settings
When [my dad] was at the University of Michigan, my mom was a social-worker. As he rose, he voted for [Adlai] Stevenson initially. Then he voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. Then he kept voting Republican until he voted for Barack Obama.
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Dad Mom Social Views Voted Worker
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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Children Fire Military Trillion World
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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Mean Roots Thinking
I lasted a year and a half at Michigan before I dropped out and joined the merchant marines and I was a merchant marine for my sophomore year then I came back to Michigan.
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Drop Lasted Marine Merchant Year
It’s worth remembering that in 1965, something like 20% of Americans were against the war. Something like 70% were for the war. So, it wasn’t a popular or an easy thing to do.
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Easy Remember War
I’d been arrested many times by then. I’d been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968].
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Changed Three Years
It’s amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.
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Amazing Mind Paranoid
I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
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Intellectual Intelligence Learning
[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.
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Awakening Firsts Years
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
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Finals Path War

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They were pretty interesting about being interesting able to look at their children and think oh my children know things and they gave us a lot of sense of our own agency, and that may be a kind of a ruling class trait.

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