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I came back to Ann Harbor, got caught up with people who were much more sophisticated than I, and it was an exciting time because my eyes were opening and that’s always exciting and Michigan is the place where we had the first teach-in against the war.

Bill Ayers

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
I don’t regret setting bombs.
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Bombs Regret Settings
Terrorists destroy randomly.
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Destroy Randomly Terrorist
I find some unity with Ron Paul.
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Find Some Unity
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 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
Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President – that was exhilarating.
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Country Exhilarating Long
You will be raising these kids in your mind your whole life. And they will change you. Your little contribution to it – twenty years from now, they’ll be marching off into other things and that’s still the legacy you leave.
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Change Kids Mind Rising Years
I’m wary of government. Part of [the Tea Party] impulse is to dislike and be worried about the rich. I’m that way too. So I don’t find them to be as atrocious as most people do, as your liberals do. I’m not a liberal.
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Government Party People
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
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Finals Path War
Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
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Day Ideals Pentagon
What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.
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Community Needs Teaching
In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we’re told these guys are lazy, they’re uneducated, they don’t care, they don’t have any political instincts – just like the working class in America, apparently – and then suddenly what the hell happened?
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Class Happened Men Political Rights Street
All of us pursued our own passions and our own interests. One of my brothers was filmmaker. One of my brothers was a teacher. My sister was a librarian.
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All Filmmakers Librarian One Teachers
I get up every morning and think…today I’m going to end capitalism.
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Morning Thinking Today
[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

I came back to Ann Harbor, got caught up with people who were much more sophisticated than I, and it was an exciting time because my eyes were opening and that’s always exciting and Michigan is the place where we had the first teach-in against the war.

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I came back to Ann Harbor, got caught up with people who were much more sophisticated than I, and it was an exciting time because my eyes were opening and that’s always exciting and Michigan is the place where we had the first teach-in against the war.

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