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Can we imagine a different world? I can. That’s a world where work is rational, it’s in the common good, and we’re actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven.

Bill Ayers

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Real

I dropped out in ’64. And I came back to Michigan, in ’65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam.

BILL AYERS

I dropped out in ’64. And I came back to Michigan, in ’65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam.
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Dropped Heard
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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Real
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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Three
Imperialism or globalization – I don’t have to care what it’s called to hate it.

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Imperialism
I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.
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Confident
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

BOB HOPE

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.
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Hilarious
Bobby Orr
BOBBY ORR

Helping Hockey Sneak
I mean, what’s he doing now? He’s evolving. Evolving? Well, evolve for Christ’s sake! And this is a guy – the whole gay community, and the whole environmental community and all these other people said, he’s our guy.

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I mean, what’s he doing now? He’s evolving. Evolving? Well, evolve for Christ’s sake! And this is a guy – the whole gay community, and the whole environmental community and all these other people said, he’s our guy.
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Christmas Community Evolving Jump Sake
This 1965. We went to trial on our city. We were obviously borrowing tactics and strategy from the Black freedom movement, and we were echoing their approach to things.
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Cities Trials
Bette Lord
BETTE LORD
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 Real
Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.

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Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.
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Mean
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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Vietnam
[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
“We all hated the war in Vietnam.” Well, it was easy to hate the war in Vietnam 40 years on.
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Easy Hated
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

Can we imagine a different world? I can. That’s a world where work is rational, it’s in the common good, and we’re actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven.

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