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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.

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.
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Allure Communism Unions
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
We should open our eyes, see what’s in front of us, and act.
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Eye Fronts Should
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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Hero Should Thinking
I have an addiction to caffeine.
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Addiction Caffeine Habit
I haven’t been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I’m not silent.
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Lectures Silent Writing
[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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Organization Powerful Reading
I’d been arrested many times by then. I’d been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968].
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Changed Three Years
I didn’t kill innocent people.
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Innocent Kill People
Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.
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Driven Parent Tolerant
One-hundred facts about Vietnam and we studied the fact sheet and got in to these arguments and it was fantastic, and I remember one moment when we heard two students saying don’t talk to those guys, meaning my brother and me.
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Brother Stupid Two
I don’t know that I ever bought into the “American dream.” I was a child of privilege. I grew up in the ’50s and it was a quiet time in America, at least on the surface and I grew up in a kind of feathery bed of privilege.
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America Children Dream
In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don’t try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of us went into business. None of us became powerful people like that.
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Brother Children Teacher
Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.
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Hate Minorities War
I was involved in the anti-war movement.
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Involved Movement 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

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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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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