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

Bill Ayers

If you pull in Europeans, Canadians, people from around the Third World, the war was vastly unpopular. But even half of Americans by 1968 opposed the war.
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Country Opposed Third War World
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
If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church, your pastor, your parents, common sense, tradition, everything. You would have been against everything.
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Common Law Sense White
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
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Finals Path War
Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.
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Hate Minorities War
Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.
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Experiments Fascinating Relationship
[Barack] Obama doesn’t disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I’m a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.
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Campaigns Compromise Politician
I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn’t do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?
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Faces Students Taught
Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.
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Democratic Society Student Students
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’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
Education is a right, it’s a journey, it’s a process, and it’s something we have to stand for, as hard as it is.
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Hard Journey Process
I have an addiction to caffeine.
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Addiction Caffeine Habit
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
[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.
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Ends Kings Luther
Being arrested that also changed everything for me because I was suddenly seeing America from a different perspective all together. I did a couple of weeks in a county jail.
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Country Couple Jail Suddenly

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