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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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Imperialism or globalization – I don’t have to care what it’s called to hate it.
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Care Hate Imperialism
I was involved in the anti-war movement.
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Involved Movement War
I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice.
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Egalitarianism War White
I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he’s been elected.
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Country Delighted Elected President
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
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Finals Path War
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
I find some unity with Ron Paul.
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Find Some Unity
Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
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Excited Narcissism Writing
I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.
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Less Shared Should Views
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
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
Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn’t end the war. And that’s what we set out to do. What was not ended by the anti-war movement was ended by the Vietnamese. That’s our shame.
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Hippie Running War
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
Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
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Day Ideals Pentagon
Being arrested that also changed everything for me because I was suddenly seeing America from a different perspective all together. I did a couple of weeks in a county jail.
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Country Couple Jail Suddenly
The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.
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Movement Vietnam War

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