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Education is the motor-force of revolution.

Bill Ayers

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
I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he’s been elected.
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Country Delighted Elected President
I lasted a year and a half at Michigan before I dropped out and joined the merchant marines and I was a merchant marine for my sophomore year then I came back to Michigan.
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Drop Lasted Marine Merchant Year
I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.
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Mean Roots Thinking
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
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
I’m wary of government. Part of [the Tea Party] impulse is to dislike and be worried about the rich. I’m that way too. So I don’t find them to be as atrocious as most people do, as your liberals do. I’m not a liberal.
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Government Party People
Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.
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Hate Minorities War
The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.
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Goes Ideas Teaching
It’s the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.
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Community Greatness School
So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan’s home.
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Home President
Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
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Day Ideals Pentagon
In a wild and diverse democracy each of us should be trying to talk to lots and lots and lots of people outside of our own kind of comfort zone and community, and that injunction goes even further for political leaders.
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Community Diverse People
Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.
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Experiments Fascinating Relationship
It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips – these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys is in favor of slavery, right?
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Guy People Real
I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn’t do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?
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Faces Students Taught

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