Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.
BILL AYERS
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Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.
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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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I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.
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Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
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Two months after that, Kennedy was assassinated. Two months after that, Henry Kissinger emerged from the swamp he was living in at Harvard with a plan to expand the war.
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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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The antiwar movement in all its commitment, all its sacrifice and determination, could not stop the violence unleashed against Vietnam. And therein lies cause for real regret.
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We should open our eyes, see what’s in front of us, and act.
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