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Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.

Bill Ayers

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
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Broken Numbers People
I didn’t kill innocent people.
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Innocent Kill People
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
It felt to me like I was living my life in a way that didn’t make mockery of my values. That’s what I intended to do. So, that became a very radicalizing proposition for me.
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Life Living Mockery.Way
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
In a world as out of balance as this world, everyone can find something to do. And the question isn’t can you do everything; the question is, can you do anything?
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Balance This World World
I said something idiotic like, as [William] Shakespeare says, “Action is eloquence,” and the judge just frowned at me and gave me a couple weeks in jail.
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Couple Jail Judging
Imperialism or globalization – I don’t have to care what it’s called to hate it.
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Care Hate Imperialism
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
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
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
To be a human being is to suffer. But it’s the unnecessary suffering, it’s the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.
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Should Suffering Unnecessary
I don’t buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I’m an intergenerational person.
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Mythology Persons Thinking
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
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
Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.
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Democratic Society Student Students

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