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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.

Bill Ayers

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
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Murdered People War
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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Children Fire Military Trillion World
It’s not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it’s the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson.
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Black Movement
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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Country Exhilarating Long
In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we’re told these guys are lazy, they’re uneducated, they don’t care, they don’t have any political instincts – just like the working class in America, apparently – and then suddenly what the hell happened?
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Class Happened Men Political Rights Street
I have an addiction to caffeine.
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Addiction Caffeine Habit
Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, “How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?” It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer–a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.
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Circles Dream House
I’m different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I’m thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still there. They’re not different.
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Different Principles Thinking
Nixon probably was a nice guy.
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Guy Nice Probably
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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People Vietnam War
What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.
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Community Needs Teaching
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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Commitment Passion Today
The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see.
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Eye Reality Rhythm Simple
It’s the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.
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Community Greatness School
The antiwar movement in all its commitment, all its sacrifice and determination, could not stop the violence unleashed against Vietnam. And therein lies cause for real regret.
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Couse Determination Regret Unleashed
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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Ideas Political Privilege

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