But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.
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One of the things that’s complicated about writing anything is that it’s an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.
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The truth is that the antiwar movement was powered by the working class. The students were the ones that got the media and so forth, but it was the soldiers on the ground who really energized the antiwar movement in the late Sixties.
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Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.
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Even there, [Barack] Obama’s generals, his Pentagon, they’re telling him what to do. And the force for gay rights is inevitable. And you can say Obama will help us, and maybe he will, but only if we have something on the ground that will make him help us.
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Politicians are conservative by nature.
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There was a sense of palpable relief that George [W.] Bush was leaving and that the Republicans had slipped back and that was a wonderful feeling.
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The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.
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Nixon probably was a nice guy.
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