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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.

Bill Ayers

Imperialism or globalization – I don’t have to care what it’s called to hate it.
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Care Hate Imperialism
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
Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.
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Experiments Fascinating Relationship
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
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 we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan’s home.
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Home President
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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Children Country Kind May Ruling Sense
In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we’re told these guys are lazy, they’re uneducated, they don’t care, they don’t have any political instincts – just like the working class in America, apparently – and then suddenly what the hell happened?
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Class Happened Men Political Rights Street
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
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Finals Path War
I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.
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Less Shared Should Views
I’m different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I’m thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still there. They’re not different.
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Different Principles Thinking
We have sex education – I’m for it, I’m not against it. But any curriculum should recognize that it’s young people’s job to invent it themselves. You’re not going to teach them; they’re going to reinvent it.
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Jobs People Sex
Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
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Bird Century Country
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
It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips – these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys is in favor of slavery, right?
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Guy People Real
It’s the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.
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Community Greatness School

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