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“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.

Bill Ayers

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
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Bird Century Country
Imperialism or globalization – I don’t have to care what it’s called to hate it.
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Care Hate Imperialism
Politicians are conservative by nature.
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Conservative Nature Politician
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 rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see.
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Eye Reality Rhythm Simple
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
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
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
I haven’t been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I’m not silent.
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Lectures Silent Writing
We should open our eyes, see what’s in front of us, and act.
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Eye Fronts Should
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
The antiwar movement in all its commitment, all its sacrifice and determination, could not stop the violence unleashed against Vietnam. And therein lies cause for real regret.
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Couse Determination Regret Unleashed
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
I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice.
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Egalitarianism War White
If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life – you might want to – when I read these to my students, they think it’s Malcom X because it’s so radical.
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Country King Thinking
Frederick Douglass ran a primary campaign against [Abraham Lincoln] the second time around, in 1864. They hated him. Why’d they hate him? Because he said things like “I believe in white supremacy.”
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Believe Hate White

“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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“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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