Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.

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Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.

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Agitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren’t bound by those rules. We’re not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?
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People camped out at his house, and wondering who’s coming to visit, who’s going to be the Secretary of State – that all struck me as inane and stupid.
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One of the things that happened that I think is noteworthy, my parents were pretty tolerant people given their position in society.

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One of the things that happened that I think is noteworthy, my parents were pretty tolerant people given their position in society.
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Agency
Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting – it’s exciting to be in that dialogue.
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Real
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I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.
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[John] McCain seemed to be winking to the Right, and [Barack] Obama seemed to be winking to the Left. Neither one of them – if McCain had been elected we’d still be where we are on gay rights.
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Gay Winking
Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President – that was exhilarating.

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Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President – that was exhilarating.
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Exhilarating Long
[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.
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Awakening Firsts Years
The world spends two trillion dollars a year on military, and of that two trillion the United States spends one trillion. We have a bigger military than the rest of the world put together. We have 150 foreign military bases.
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Dollar Military Two Years
I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
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When I was arrested opposing the war in Vietnam in 1965, as I said about 20 or 30% of people were opposed to the war. By 1968, more than half of Americans were opposed to the war.
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Vietnam
I don’t regret setting bombs.
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Bombs Settings
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
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Murdered
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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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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Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.

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