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If you pull in Europeans, Canadians, people from around the Third World, the war was vastly unpopular. But even half of Americans by 1968 opposed the war.

Bill Ayers

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
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Day Ideals Pentagon
I get up every morning and think…today I’m going to end capitalism.
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Morning Thinking Today
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
Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
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Bird Century Country
Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn’t end the war. And that’s what we set out to do. What was not ended by the anti-war movement was ended by the Vietnamese. That’s our shame.
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Hippie Running 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
One-hundred facts about Vietnam and we studied the fact sheet and got in to these arguments and it was fantastic, and I remember one moment when we heard two students saying don’t talk to those guys, meaning my brother and me.
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Brother Stupid Two
Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.
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Busy Injustice Mean
I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero – I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.
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Hero Should Thinking
It’s worth remembering that in 1965, something like 20% of Americans were against the war. Something like 70% were for the war. So, it wasn’t a popular or an easy thing to do.
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Easy Remember War
I’m not disappointed in [Barack] Obama. He said who he is; he’s doing what he said he would do.
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Barack Disappointed Said
I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
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Intellectual Intelligence Learning
What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.
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Family Mainstream Moderate
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
It’s the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.
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Community Greatness School
I was involved in the anti-war movement.
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Involved Movement War

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