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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,

Bill Ayers

I was indicted on two federal conspiracies. My wife was on the Ten Most Wanted list. That’s what fascism was going to look like. That’s what it did look like.
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Conspiracies Looks Two Wife
Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.
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Experiments Fascinating Relationship
The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore.
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Humanity Independent People
Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.
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Car Home People
[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.
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Awakening Firsts Years
When [my dad] was at the University of Michigan, my mom was a social-worker. As he rose, he voted for [Adlai] Stevenson initially. Then he voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. Then he kept voting Republican until he voted for Barack Obama.
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Dad Mom Social Views Voted Worker
[Barack Obama] was running for Senate and he’s saying, I’m not for gay marriage because I’m a Christian. Jump off a bridge! I mean what the hell are you talking about? You know,
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Christian Mean Running
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
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 have an addiction to caffeine.
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Addiction Caffeine Habit
Without a doubt. It’s woven into our DNA in a very deep way and so to kind of be smacked in the face with the hypocrisy of the America that we were sold was a liberating and harsh experience.
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Country DNA Hypocrisy
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’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 think saying “I was wrong here, I was wrong there” absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you into heaven.
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Absolves Heaven Thinking
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
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

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