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Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year – a small government proposal if ever there was one.

Bill Ayers

I’m wary of government. Part of [the Tea Party] impulse is to dislike and be worried about the rich. I’m that way too. So I don’t find them to be as atrocious as most people do, as your liberals do. I’m not a liberal.
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Government Party People
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
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
Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.
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Car Home People
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
I don’t regret setting bombs.
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Bombs Regret Settings
So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan’s home.
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Home President
When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.
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Allure Communism Unions
Without a doubt. It’s woven into our DNA in a very deep way and so to kind of be smacked in the face with the hypocrisy of the America that we were sold was a liberating and harsh experience.
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Country DNA Hypocrisy
It’s amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.
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Amazing Mind Paranoid
One hundred years from now, we’ll all be dead. It’s hard to believe. One hundred years from now, everyone we see every day will be gone.
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Believe Gone Years
It was one of the founders of SDS and that chief writer of the Port Huron Statement, which is still worth reading. It’s kind of the Bernie Sanders campaign document in a funny way.
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Campaign Document Funn Reading Way
Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.
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Democratic Society Student Students
If the logic of capitalism is “expand or die,” then either it has to die or the world has to die.
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Capitalism Logic World
Education is the motor-force of revolution.
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Force Motor Revolution
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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