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I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

Bill Ayers

“I didn’t want her to miss tonight! I wanted to be able to tell her!” And to see all these people, a Hispanic cop dancing with an old white woman, wow! I mean, that’s the world I want to live in, and because it’s the world I want to live in, I had a hard time leaving.
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Dancing Hispanic People Tonight Wanted Woman World
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.
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Country Law Military
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
Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.
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Hate Minorities War
Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.
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Busy Injustice Mean
The day before every revolution that’s ever happened, that revolution was impossible. The day before Rosa Parks, that was impossible. The day after, it was inevitable.
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Before Day Knows Nobody Revolution
There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were – “a real threat,” you know? He thought so and we thought so and we were buddies in that regard.
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Lenses Moments Real
People camped out at his house, and wondering who’s coming to visit, who’s going to be the Secretary of State – that all struck me as inane and stupid.
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Insane People Stupid Wondering
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
We’re actually saying, here’s a principle that I’d like to arc toward. That’s a very different role in life. I didn’t expect [Barack] Obama to go to the root of things. I didn’t expect him to have a principled position on anything. I mean, just pay some moderate attention to the guy.
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Guy Mean Roots
I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.
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Absolutely Barack Country Wells
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
If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life – you might want to – when I read these to my students, they think it’s Malcom X because it’s so radical.
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Country King Thinking
Terrorists destroy randomly.
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Destroy Randomly Terrorist
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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Children Fire Military Trillion World
Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
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Excited Narcissism Writing

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