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I would say for the young: Don’t be straight jacketed by ideology. Don’t be driven by a structure of ideas.

Bill Ayers

We should open our eyes, see what’s in front of us, and act.
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Eye Fronts Should
One of the things that happened that I think is noteworthy, my parents were pretty tolerant people given their position in society.
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Agency Children Thinking
Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.
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Busy Injustice Mean
It’s the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.
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Community Greatness School
There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were – “a real threat,” you know? He thought so and we thought so and we were buddies in that regard.
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Lenses Moments Real
I don’t buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I’m an intergenerational person.
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Mythology Persons Thinking
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.
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Kings Party Stupid
To be a human being is to suffer. But it’s the unnecessary suffering, it’s the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.
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Should Suffering Unnecessary
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.
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Before Day Knows Nobody Revolution
One question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don’t have a knee-jerk kind of 1930s thing about we must build the unions and that’s the way to the future.
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Book Party Writing
The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.
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Movement Vietnam War
I came back to Ann Harbor, got caught up with people who were much more sophisticated than I, and it was an exciting time because my eyes were opening and that’s always exciting and Michigan is the place where we had the first teach-in against the war.
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Eye People War
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.
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Rich Three Want
Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn’t end the war. And that’s what we set out to do. What was not ended by the anti-war movement was ended by the Vietnamese. That’s our shame.
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Hippie Running War
Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
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Impossible Inevitable Revolution
When someone who’s always been in your life is gone, it’s a stunning adjustment of your own identity.
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Adjustment Gone Identity Life

I would say for the young: Don’t be straight jacketed by ideology. Don’t be driven by a structure of ideas.

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