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Bill Ayers

Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.
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Challenges Class Country
I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he’s been elected.
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Country Delighted Elected President
I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.
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Less Shared Should Views
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
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.
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Community Diverse People
[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
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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Fun Real Teaching
I’m writing this book right now called Pallin’ Around, and the subtitle is: “Talking to the Tea Party.” And frankly I find talking to the Tea Party exhilarating, I love it.
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Exhilarating Frankly Love Talking Writing
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 wasn’t part of John Kennedy’s vision of the world, or Lyndon Johnson’s. I thought of them as anti-Communist imperial monsters.
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Monsters Vision World
So that’s kind of amazing. But he was offered a cabinet post by Eisenhower in his second term. So he was moderate Republican. But if you asked him, he would’ve said, “I don’t have any politics. I’m a business person.” Mainstream, the American view, as he understood it.
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Country Eisenhower Moderate Republican
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.
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Half Past World
[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.
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Ends Kings Luther
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
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
Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
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Excited Narcissism Writing

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