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Bill Ayers

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.
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Ambitious Guy Lovely
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.
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Change Hard Social Work
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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Children Fire Military Trillion World
Terrorists destroy randomly.
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Destroy Randomly Terrorist
The world spends two trillion dollars a year on military, and of that two trillion the United States spends one trillion. We have a bigger military than the rest of the world put together. We have 150 foreign military bases.
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Dollar Military Spend Two Years
[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do as a conservative politician.
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Black Country Movement
Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year – a small government proposal if ever there was one.
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Government Proposal Years
I get up every morning and think…today I’m going to end capitalism.
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Morning Thinking Today
One hundred years from now, we’ll all be dead. It’s hard to believe. One hundred years from now, everyone we see every day will be gone.
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Believe Gone Years
Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek the presidency again. He would go to Paris and end the war in Vietnam. Well we were ecstatic.
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Country President Spring War
I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base – those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.
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Country Law Military
I don’t buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I’m an intergenerational person.
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Mythology Persons Thinking
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
The way it happened was that we were advocating for a strike that we advocated that the faculty should strike in solidarity with the Vietnamese struggle.
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Advocated Country Struggle Way
“We all hated the war in Vietnam.” Well, it was easy to hate the war in Vietnam 40 years on.
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Country Easy Hated People War
We should open our eyes, see what’s in front of us, and act.
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Eye Fronts Should

Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting – it’s exciting to be in that dialogue.

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