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

Bill Ayers

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
BILL AYERS

Bird Century Country
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
I always say your body is the temple of your spirit, why not decorate it? My kids say, no, no, your body is the temple of your spirit, keep it clean. I’m covered in tattoos and I get a tattoo every time I write a book. I get the tattoo from the book.
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Book Tattoo Writing
If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.
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Debate Gay Rights
One of the things that’s complicated about writing anything is that it’s an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.
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Go Letting World Writing
People camped out at his house, and wondering who’s coming to visit, who’s going to be the Secretary of State – that all struck me as inane and stupid.
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Insane People Stupid Wondering
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
After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, “You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago.” That was the limit of my imagination.
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Guy Imagination Thinking
Frankly, the gay movement on the ground has been one of the great propulsive things that has made politicians do what they do.
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Frankly Ground Politician Propulsive
The US is indeed a terrorist nation. …It’s also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.
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Half Past World
[Barack Obama] was running for Senate and he’s saying, I’m not for gay marriage because I’m a Christian. Jump off a bridge! I mean what the hell are you talking about? You know,
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Christian Mean Running
I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he’s been elected.
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Country Delighted Elected President
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
I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.
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Hopeless Mother Suffering
One of the things that happened that I think is noteworthy, my parents were pretty tolerant people given their position in society.
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Agency Children Thinking
The way it happened was that we were advocating for a strike that we advocated that the faculty should strike in solidarity with the Vietnamese struggle.
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Advocated Country Struggle Way

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