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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.

Bill Ayers

People camped out at his house, and wondering who’s coming to visit, who’s going to be the Secretary of State – that all struck me as inane and stupid.
BILL AYERS

Insane People Stupid Wondering
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
Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
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Day Ideals Pentagon
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
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
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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Children Fire Military Trillion World
Even there, [Barack] Obama’s generals, his Pentagon, they’re telling him what to do. And the force for gay rights is inevitable. And you can say Obama will help us, and maybe he will, but only if we have something on the ground that will make him help us.
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Country Gay Movement President Rights
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
One of the things that’s complicated about writing anything is that it’s an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.
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Go Letting World Writing
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
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
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
I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I’d been more unifying, I wish I’d been more principled.
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Unifying Wiser Wish
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
I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
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Intellectual Intelligence Learning
His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.
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Book Community Kings

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