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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.

Bill Ayers

I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.
BILL AYERS

Air Book Confident Wall
I was indicted on two federal conspiracies. My wife was on the Ten Most Wanted list. That’s what fascism was going to look like. That’s what it did look like.
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Conspiracies Looks Two Wife
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.
BILL AYERS

Change Kids Mind Rising Years
There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were – “a real threat,” you know? He thought so and we thought so and we were buddies in that regard.
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Lenses Moments Real
I get up every morning and think…today I’m going to end capitalism.
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Morning Thinking Today
There was a sense of palpable relief that George [W.] Bush was leaving and that the Republicans had slipped back and that was a wonderful feeling.
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Feelings Leaving relief
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
I didn’t kill innocent people.
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Innocent Kill People
[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.
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Awakening Firsts Years
The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.
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Goes Ideas Teaching
In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don’t try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of us went into business. None of us became powerful people like that.
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Brother Children Teacher
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
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
I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.
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Class Michigan Sources Terrible
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.
BILL AYERS

Hippie Running War
If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.
BILL AYERS

Debate Gay Rights

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