Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
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I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.
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And afterwards the head of the group got to the microphone and said, I’m surprised that I agree with almost everything you said, but I’m worried that you’re a big government guy.
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To be a human being is to suffer. But it’s the unnecessary suffering, it’s the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.
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It’s worth remembering that in 1965, something like 20% of Americans were against the war. Something like 70% were for the war. So, it wasn’t a popular or an easy thing to do.
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Nixon probably was a nice guy.
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When someone who’s always been in your life is gone, it’s a stunning adjustment of your own identity.
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I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.
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[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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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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Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
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There are things about classic liberalism that obviously I’m drawn to and I bet all of you are as well. Those are things like liberty, freedom, the Bill of Rights. But the reason that I reject the label is that I grew up cutting my teeth against the liberals.
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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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If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.
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I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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That’s what [Abraham] Lincoln said. “The white man will always be above the black man. I don’t want them to run for office, or have political rights, or vote. I want them to go back to Africa.”
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