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Bill Ayers

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
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Impossible Inevitable Revolution
Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.
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Experiments Fascinating Relationship
When [my dad] was at the University of Michigan, my mom was a social-worker. As he rose, he voted for [Adlai] Stevenson initially. Then he voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. Then he kept voting Republican until he voted for Barack Obama.
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Dad Mom Social Views Voted Worker
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
I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.
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Mean Roots Thinking
Even there, [Barack] Obama’s generals, his Pentagon, they’re telling him what to do. And the force for gay rights is inevitable. And you can say Obama will help us, and maybe he will, but only if we have something on the ground that will make him help us.
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Country Gay Movement President Rights
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
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
I would say for the young: Don’t be straight jacketed by ideology. Don’t be driven by a structure of ideas.
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Driven Ideas Structure
Where’s the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows.
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Parks Revolution Thinking
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
Nixon probably was a nice guy.
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Guy Nice Probably
When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.
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Allure Communism Unions
Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
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Excited Narcissism Writing
Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
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Day Ideals Pentagon

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