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

Bill Ayers

We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can’t the politicians respond to that? Because they are the rich. And they are beholden to the rich. It’s a captured system.
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Rich Three Want
I wasn’t part of John Kennedy’s vision of the world, or Lyndon Johnson’s. I thought of them as anti-Communist imperial monsters.
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Monsters Vision World
I was involved in the anti-war movement.
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Involved Movement War
Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.
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Democratic Society Student Students
It’s amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.
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Amazing Mind Paranoid
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
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
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
[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
Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, “How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?” It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer–a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.
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Circles Dream House
I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.
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Rights Support War
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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Children Fire Military Trillion World
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
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Finals Path War
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
It’s not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it’s the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson.
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Black Movement
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

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