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I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.

Bill Ayers

I spoke at the University of Georgia, and a whole contingent of Tea Party people in Hell’s Angels regalia came in and sat in the front and scowled at me while I gave my talk.
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Angel Government Party
That’s in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn’t work, but it’s very hard to predict what will work.
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Change Hard Social Work
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
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Finals Path War
Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.
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Hate Minorities War
If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church, your pastor, your parents, common sense, tradition, everything. You would have been against everything.
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Common Law Sense White
What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.
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Family Mainstream Moderate
Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
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Bird Century Country
So I had the great advantage of being able to play up to the older kids and play down to the younger kids and I think that’s part of what propelled me to become a teacher at some point in my life. But it was a comfortable childhood. It was a privileged childhood.
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Childhood Kids Some Point Younger
I have an addiction to caffeine.
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Addiction Caffeine Habit
One-hundred facts about Vietnam and we studied the fact sheet and got in to these arguments and it was fantastic, and I remember one moment when we heard two students saying don’t talk to those guys, meaning my brother and me.
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Brother Stupid Two
I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he’s been elected.
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Country Delighted Elected President
What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.
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Community Needs Teaching
[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
The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see.
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Eye Reality Rhythm Simple
I find some unity with Ron Paul.
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Find Some Unity
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

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