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When I was arrested opposing the war in Vietnam in 1965, as I said about 20 or 30% of people were opposed to the war. By 1968, more than half of Americans were opposed to the war.

Bill Ayers

I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he’s been elected.
BILL AYERS

Country Delighted Elected President
The way it happened was that we were advocating for a strike that we advocated that the faculty should strike in solidarity with the Vietnamese struggle.
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Advocated Country Struggle Way
Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
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Broken Numbers People
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
That’s what [Abraham] Lincoln said. “The white man will always be above the black man. I don’t want them to run for office, or have political rights, or vote. I want them to go back to Africa.”
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Men Rights Running
I don’t buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I’m an intergenerational person.
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Mythology Persons Thinking
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
When someone who’s always been in your life is gone, it’s a stunning adjustment of your own identity.
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Adjustment Gone Identity Life
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
I don’t regret setting bombs.
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Bombs Regret Settings
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
[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 truth is that the antiwar movement was powered by the working class. The students were the ones that got the media and so forth, but it was the soldiers on the ground who really energized the antiwar movement in the late Sixties.
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Class Media Soldier
I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice.
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Egalitarianism War White
When you go into a college of education you’ve got aspirations of making a difference in people’s lives, of loving children, of working with kids, but none of that is affirmed in your college of education.
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Children Country School
I have an addiction to caffeine.
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Addiction Caffeine Habit

When I was arrested opposing the war in Vietnam in 1965, as I said about 20 or 30% of people were opposed to the war. By 1968, more than half of Americans were opposed to the war.

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When I was arrested opposing the war in Vietnam in 1965, as I said about 20 or 30% of people were opposed to the war. By 1968, more than half of Americans were opposed to the war.

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