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

Bill Ayers

What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.
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Family Mainstream Moderate
There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the ’50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.
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Ideas Political Privilege
It’s the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.
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Community Greatness School
Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.
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Busy Injustice Mean
I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.
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Less Shared Should Views
I don’t buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I’m an intergenerational person.
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Mythology Persons Thinking
Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don’t have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.
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Activism Art Contradictory
We should open our eyes, see what’s in front of us, and act.
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Eye Fronts Should
I get up every morning and think…today I’m going to end capitalism.
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Morning Thinking Today
“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
Imperialism or globalization – I don’t have to care what it’s called to hate it.
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Care Hate Imperialism
That’s where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War.
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Growth Organization War
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
[Students for a Democratic Society] was on many campuses and it was a powerful organization. It was founded by Tom Hayden, who passed away very recently.
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Organization Powerful Reading
Nixon probably was a nice guy.
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Guy Nice Probably
[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do as a conservative politician.
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Black Country Movement

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