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Bill Ayers

The way it happened was that we were advocating for a strike that we advocated that the faculty should strike in solidarity with the Vietnamese struggle.
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Advocated Country Struggle Way
I would say when I went to Michigan. It started. I got very very involved in civil rights in Ann Harbor right away. Picketing, something I never even knew existed.
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Harbors Michigan Rights
In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying “I’m sorry,” is that there’s so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.
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Moving Regret Sorry
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 don’t know that I ever bought into the “American dream.” I was a child of privilege. I grew up in the ’50s and it was a quiet time in America, at least on the surface and I grew up in a kind of feathery bed of privilege.
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America Children Dream
Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year – a small government proposal if ever there was one.
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Government Proposal Years
Education is the motor-force of revolution.
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Force Motor Revolution
I get up every morning and think…today I’m going to end capitalism.
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Morning Thinking Today
Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
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Excited Narcissism Writing
Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
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Broken Numbers People
“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
This man is a war criminal.” My younger brother and I, he was freshman and I was a sophomore, got caught up in the debates that were swirling around the center of campus and the young Trotskyists had put out a fact sheet on Vietnam that was phenomenal.
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Around Campus Criminal Freshman Mna Sophomore Swirling
When someone who’s always been in your life is gone, it’s a stunning adjustment of your own identity.
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Adjustment Gone Identity Life
One hundred years from now, we’ll all be dead. It’s hard to believe. One hundred years from now, everyone we see every day will be gone.
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Believe Gone Years
Being an activist and an artist – those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you.
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Artist Together Two
Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical. By the end he was calling for revolution. People don’t know this because they go to too many prayer breakfasts on his birthday.
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Kings Prayer Revolution Years

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