[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.
BILL AYERSNixon probably was a nice guy.
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I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
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I didn’t kill innocent people.
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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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[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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That’s where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War.
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There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the ’50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.
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Politicians are conservative by nature.
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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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Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.
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I was involved in the anti-war movement.
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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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I lasted a year and a half at Michigan before I dropped out and joined the merchant marines and I was a merchant marine for my sophomore year then I came back to Michigan.
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[Students for a Democratic Society] was on many campuses and it was a powerful organization. It was founded by Tom Hayden, who passed away very recently.
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When someone who’s always been in your life is gone, it’s a stunning adjustment of your own identity.
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Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.
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