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Bill Ayers

[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 an activist and an artist – those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you.
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Artist Together Two
It was one of the founders of SDS and that chief writer of the Port Huron Statement, which is still worth reading. It’s kind of the Bernie Sanders campaign document in a funny way.
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Campaign Document Funn Reading Way
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
We should open our eyes, see what’s in front of us, and act.
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Eye Fronts Should
It was the Democratic Party, it was the Presidential election. We elected a president [Barack Obama]; we didn’t elect a king. So all the speculation in the next three months.
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Kings Party Stupid
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
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
I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero – I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.
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Hero Should Thinking
I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.
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Less Shared Should Views
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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Country Eisenhower Moderate Republican
Frankly, the gay movement on the ground has been one of the great propulsive things that has made politicians do what they do.
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Frankly Ground Politician Propulsive
Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical. By the end he was calling for revolution. People don’t know this because they go to too many prayer breakfasts on his birthday.
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Kings Prayer Revolution Years
Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
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Bird Century Country
Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.
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Experiments Fascinating Relationship
I do think [Barack Obama’s] strategy for re-election is so misguided. He’s counting on the Republicans to self-destruct, and they might, you know, but they might not. So he might be a one-term president.
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President Self Thinking

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