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I find some unity with Ron Paul.

Bill Ayers

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
My father lived with me the last five years of his life and passed away of Alzheimer’s, and at that point he was saying to anyone who would listen,
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Father Hate Listen War
I’m not disappointed in [Barack] Obama. He said who he is; he’s doing what he said he would do.
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Barack Disappointed Said
After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, “You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago.” That was the limit of my imagination.
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Guy Imagination Thinking
And afterwards the head of the group got to the microphone and said, I’m surprised that I agree with almost everything you said, but I’m worried that you’re a big government guy.
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Agree Government Guy Surprise Worried
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
Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
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Day Ideals Pentagon
When I was arrested opposing the war in Vietnam in 1965, as I said about 20 or 30% of people were opposed to the war. By 1968, more than half of Americans were opposed to the war.
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People Vietnam War
That’s where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War.
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Growth Organization War
[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.
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Awakening Firsts Years
This man is a war criminal.” My younger brother and I, he was freshman and I was a sophomore, got caught up in the debates that were swirling around the center of campus and the young Trotskyists had put out a fact sheet on Vietnam that was phenomenal.
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Around Campus Criminal Freshman Mna Sophomore Swirling
In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying “I’m sorry,” is that there’s so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.
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Moving Regret Sorry
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
But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.
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Boys Fool Mind
I mean, what’s he doing now? He’s evolving. Evolving? Well, evolve for Christ’s sake! And this is a guy – the whole gay community, and the whole environmental community and all these other people said, he’s our guy.
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Christmas Community Evolving Jump People Sake
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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Children Fire Military Trillion World

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