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You will be raising these kids in your mind your whole life. And they will change you. Your little contribution to it – twenty years from now, they’ll be marching off into other things and that’s still the legacy you leave.

Bill Ayers

Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.
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Experiments Fascinating Relationship
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
If the logic of capitalism is “expand or die,” then either it has to die or the world has to die.
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Capitalism Logic World
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?
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Class Happened Men Political Rights Street
I get up every morning and think…today I’m going to end capitalism.
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Morning Thinking Today
I don’t think saying “I was wrong here, I was wrong there” absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you into heaven.
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Absolves Heaven Thinking
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
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Compassion Kids Parenting
Without a doubt. It’s woven into our DNA in a very deep way and so to kind of be smacked in the face with the hypocrisy of the America that we were sold was a liberating and harsh experience.
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Country DNA Hypocrisy
Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.
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Hate Minorities War
I said something idiotic like, as [William] Shakespeare says, “Action is eloquence,” and the judge just frowned at me and gave me a couple weeks in jail.
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Couple Jail Judging
I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.
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Air Book Confident Wall
Education is the motor-force of revolution.
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Force Motor Revolution
It was the Democratic Party, it was the Presidential election. We elected a president [Barack Obama]; we didn’t elect a king. So all the speculation in the next three months.
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Kings Party Stupid
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
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
Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.
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Driven Parent Tolerant

You will be raising these kids in your mind your whole life. And they will change you. Your little contribution to it – twenty years from now, they’ll be marching off into other things and that’s still the legacy you leave.

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