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Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

Bill Ayers

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
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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Rich Three Want
I’d been arrested many times by then. I’d been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968].
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Changed Three Years
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
The world spends two trillion dollars a year on military, and of that two trillion the United States spends one trillion. We have a bigger military than the rest of the world put together. We have 150 foreign military bases.
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Dollar Military Spend Two Years
They were pretty interesting about being interesting able to look at their children and think oh my children know things and they gave us a lot of sense of our own agency, and that may be a kind of a ruling class trait.
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Children Country Kind May Ruling Sense
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 think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero – I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.
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Hero Should Thinking
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
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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Children Fire Military Trillion World
“I didn’t want her to miss tonight! I wanted to be able to tell her!” And to see all these people, a Hispanic cop dancing with an old white woman, wow! I mean, that’s the world I want to live in, and because it’s the world I want to live in, I had a hard time leaving.
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Dancing Hispanic People Tonight Wanted Woman World
It’s not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it’s the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson.
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Black Movement
Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
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Excited Narcissism Writing
I do think [Barack Obama’s] strategy for re-election is so misguided. He’s counting on the Republicans to self-destruct, and they might, you know, but they might not. So he might be a one-term president.
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President Self Thinking
Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.
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Experiments Fascinating Relationship
In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don’t try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of us went into business. None of us became powerful people like that.
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Brother Children Teacher

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