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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.

Bill Ayers

I don’t buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I’m an intergenerational person.
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Mythology Persons Thinking
[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.
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Awakening Firsts Years
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
Education is the motor-force of revolution.
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Force Motor Revolution
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
The US is indeed a terrorist nation. …It’s also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.
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Half Past World
Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting – it’s exciting to be in that dialogue.
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Fun Real Teaching
The great example, the killer example in history, is of course Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. Read his speeches. Read the debates. Wendell Phillips called him “the great slaver from Illinois.”
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Example Illinois Speech
I don’t regret setting bombs.
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Bombs Regret Settings
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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Children Fire Military Trillion World
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
What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.
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Family Mainstream Moderate
[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do as a conservative politician.
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Black Country Movement
It’s the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.
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Community Greatness School
[Students for a Democratic Society] was on many campuses and it was a powerful organization. It was founded by Tom Hayden, who passed away very recently.
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Organization Powerful Reading
If the logic of capitalism is “expand or die,” then either it has to die or the world has to die.
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Capitalism Logic World

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