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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.

Bill Ayers

Politicians are conservative by nature.
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Conservative Nature Politician
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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Feelings Leaving relief
Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
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Bird Century Country
I do think [Barack Obama’s] strategy for re-election is so misguided. He’s counting on the Republicans to self-destruct, and they might, you know, but they might not. So he might be a one-term president.
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President Self Thinking
[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do as a conservative politician.
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Black Country Movement
It’s the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn’t on the agenda.
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Agendas Height War
I was indicted on two federal conspiracies. My wife was on the Ten Most Wanted list. That’s what fascism was going to look like. That’s what it did look like.
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Conspiracies Looks Two Wife
The president of the University said that night, congratulations to you the students, you’ve won a great victory, now the war will end. And I’m certain that he believed it that night and I believed it and we went away happy. Four days later, Martin Luther King was assassinated.
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Assisted Congratulations Kings 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
Agitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren’t bound by those rules. We’re not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?
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Figures Thread Trying
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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Boys Fool Mind
Education is a right, it’s a journey, it’s a process, and it’s something we have to stand for, as hard as it is.
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Hard Journey Process
[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.
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Ends Kings Luther
I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.
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Absolutely Barack Country Wells
The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore.
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Humanity Independent People
I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.
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Air Book Confident Wall

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