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There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the ’50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.

Bill Ayers

What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.
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Family Mainstream Moderate
Terrorists destroy randomly.
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Destroy Randomly Terrorist
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
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Finals Path War
The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.
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Commitment Passion Today
I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.
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Less Shared Should Views
I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base – those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.
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Country Law Military
Well, first of all I think that we have to be careful with terms like the working class, obviously. When [Karl] Marx wrote about the working class he was writing about something much more bounded than we’re talking about.
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Talking Thinking Writing
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
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 mean, what’s he doing now? He’s evolving. Evolving? Well, evolve for Christ’s sake! And this is a guy – the whole gay community, and the whole environmental community and all these other people said, he’s our guy.
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Christmas Community Evolving Jump People Sake
“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
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
I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.
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Class Michigan Sources Terrible
[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
It’s the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn’t on the agenda.
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Agendas Height War
I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I’d been more unifying, I wish I’d been more principled.
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Unifying Wiser Wish

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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