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The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.

Bill Ayers

Imperialism or globalization – I don’t have to care what it’s called to hate it.
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Care Hate Imperialism
Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
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Excited Narcissism Writing
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
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
My father lived with me the last five years of his life and passed away of Alzheimer’s, and at that point he was saying to anyone who would listen,
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Father Hate Listen War
Terrorists destroy randomly.
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Destroy Randomly Terrorist
Nixon probably was a nice guy.
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Guy Nice Probably
The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore.
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Humanity Independent People
Without a doubt. It’s woven into our DNA in a very deep way and so to kind of be smacked in the face with the hypocrisy of the America that we were sold was a liberating and harsh experience.
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Country DNA Hypocrisy
Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.
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Hate Minorities War
[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
Where’s the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows.
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Parks Revolution Thinking
I don’t know that I ever bought into the “American dream.” I was a child of privilege. I grew up in the ’50s and it was a quiet time in America, at least on the surface and I grew up in a kind of feathery bed of privilege.
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America Children Dream
It felt to me like I was living my life in a way that didn’t make mockery of my values. That’s what I intended to do. So, that became a very radicalizing proposition for me.
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Life Living Mockery.Way
The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.
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Commitment Passion Today
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

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