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What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.

Bill Ayers

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
If you pull in Europeans, Canadians, people from around the Third World, the war was vastly unpopular. But even half of Americans by 1968 opposed the war.
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Country Opposed Third War World
I have an addiction to caffeine.
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Addiction Caffeine Habit
I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.
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Rights Support War
We have sex education – I’m for it, I’m not against it. But any curriculum should recognize that it’s young people’s job to invent it themselves. You’re not going to teach them; they’re going to reinvent it.
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Jobs People Sex
I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.
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Country People War
Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical. By the end he was calling for revolution. People don’t know this because they go to too many prayer breakfasts on his birthday.
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Kings Prayer Revolution Years
My father lived with me the last five years of his life and passed away of Alzheimer’s, and at that point he was saying to anyone who would listen,
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Father Hate Listen War
I haven’t been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I’m not silent.
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Lectures Silent Writing
I said something idiotic like, as [William] Shakespeare says, “Action is eloquence,” and the judge just frowned at me and gave me a couple weeks in jail.
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Couple Jail Judging
Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don’t have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.
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Activism Art Contradictory
The way it happened was that we were advocating for a strike that we advocated that the faculty should strike in solidarity with the Vietnamese struggle.
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Advocated Country Struggle Way
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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Go Letting World Writing
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
I was involved in the anti-war movement.
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Involved Movement War
Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
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Bird Century Country

What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.

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