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[Barack] Obama doesn’t disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I’m a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

Bill Ayers

His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.
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Book Community Kings
Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
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Day Ideals Pentagon
Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.
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Driven Parent Tolerant
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
All of us pursued our own passions and our own interests. One of my brothers was filmmaker. One of my brothers was a teacher. My sister was a librarian.
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All Filmmakers Librarian One Teachers
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
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Compassion Kids Parenting
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
“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
[Barack Obama] was running for Senate and he’s saying, I’m not for gay marriage because I’m a Christian. Jump off a bridge! I mean what the hell are you talking about? You know,
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Christian Mean Running
I don’t regret setting bombs.
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Bombs Regret Settings
There are things about classic liberalism that obviously I’m drawn to and I bet all of you are as well. Those are things like liberty, freedom, the Bill of Rights. But the reason that I reject the label is that I grew up cutting my teeth against the liberals.
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Cutting Liberty Rights
[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 Rights Winking
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
If the logic of capitalism is “expand or die,” then either it has to die or the world has to die.
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Capitalism Logic World
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

[Barack] Obama doesn’t disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I’m a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

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