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One of the things that happened that I think is noteworthy, my parents were pretty tolerant people given their position in society.

Bill Ayers

I have an addiction to caffeine.
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Addiction Caffeine Habit
It’s amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.
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Amazing Mind Paranoid
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
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
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Murdered People War
Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
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Day Ideals Pentagon
The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.
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Movement Vietnam War
I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.
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Class Michigan Sources Terrible
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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Children Fire Military Trillion World
Education is a right, it’s a journey, it’s a process, and it’s something we have to stand for, as hard as it is.
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Hard Journey Process
The antiwar movement in all its commitment, all its sacrifice and determination, could not stop the violence unleashed against Vietnam. And therein lies cause for real regret.
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Couse Determination Regret Unleashed
We should open our eyes, see what’s in front of us, and act.
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Eye Fronts Should
I was indicted on two federal conspiracies. My wife was on the Ten Most Wanted list. That’s what fascism was going to look like. That’s what it did look like.
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Conspiracies Looks Two Wife
In a wild and diverse democracy each of us should be trying to talk to lots and lots and lots of people outside of our own kind of comfort zone and community, and that injunction goes even further for political leaders.
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Community Diverse People
The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.
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Goes Ideas Teaching
Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek the presidency again. He would go to Paris and end the war in Vietnam. Well we were ecstatic.
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Country President Spring War
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

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