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In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we’re told these guys are lazy, they’re uneducated, they don’t care, they don’t have any political instincts – just like the working class in America, apparently – and then suddenly what the hell happened?

Bill Ayers

The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore.
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Humanity Independent People
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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Children Fire Military Trillion World
The day before every revolution that’s ever happened, that revolution was impossible. The day before Rosa Parks, that was impossible. The day after, it was inevitable.
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Before Day Knows Nobody Revolution
Nixon probably was a nice guy.
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Guy Nice Probably
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’m different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I’m thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still there. They’re not different.
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Different Principles Thinking
“We all hated the war in Vietnam.” Well, it was easy to hate the war in Vietnam 40 years on.
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Country Easy Hated People War
I came back to Ann Harbor, got caught up with people who were much more sophisticated than I, and it was an exciting time because my eyes were opening and that’s always exciting and Michigan is the place where we had the first teach-in against the war.
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Eye People 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
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
That’s what [Abraham] Lincoln said. “The white man will always be above the black man. I don’t want them to run for office, or have political rights, or vote. I want them to go back to Africa.”
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Men Rights Running
I dropped out in ’64. And I came back to Michigan, in ’65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam.
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Country Dropped Heard People
[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.
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Awakening Firsts Years
Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.
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Experiments Fascinating Relationship
I don’t buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I’m an intergenerational person.
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Mythology Persons Thinking
So that’s kind of amazing. But he was offered a cabinet post by Eisenhower in his second term. So he was moderate Republican. But if you asked him, he would’ve said, “I don’t have any politics. I’m a business person.” Mainstream, the American view, as he understood it.
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Country Eisenhower Moderate Republican

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