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Bill Ayers

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.
BILL AYERS

Kings Party Stupid
If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.
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Debate Gay Rights
[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.
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Awakening Firsts Years
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
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
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
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
I would say when I went to Michigan. It started. I got very very involved in civil rights in Ann Harbor right away. Picketing, something I never even knew existed.
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Harbors Michigan Rights
Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
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Day Ideals Pentagon
I don’t know that I ever bought into the “American dream.” I was a child of privilege. I grew up in the ’50s and it was a quiet time in America, at least on the surface and I grew up in a kind of feathery bed of privilege.
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America Children Dream
We should open our eyes, see what’s in front of us, and act.
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Eye Fronts Should
I do think [Barack Obama’s] strategy for re-election is so misguided. He’s counting on the Republicans to self-destruct, and they might, you know, but they might not. So he might be a one-term president.
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President Self Thinking
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 breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.
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Air Book Confident Wall
I’m wary of government. Part of [the Tea Party] impulse is to dislike and be worried about the rich. I’m that way too. So I don’t find them to be as atrocious as most people do, as your liberals do. I’m not a liberal.
BILL AYERS

Government Party People
The antiwar movement in all its commitment, all its sacrifice and determination, could not stop the violence unleashed against Vietnam. And therein lies cause for real regret.
BILL AYERS

Couse Determination Regret Unleashed

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