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His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.

Bill Ayers

It felt to me like I was living my life in a way that didn’t make mockery of my values. That’s what I intended to do. So, that became a very radicalizing proposition for me.
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Life Living Mockery.Way
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
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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Children Fire Military Trillion World
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
Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
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Excited Narcissism Writing
I haven’t been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I’m not silent.
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Lectures Silent Writing
I would say when I went to Michigan. It started. I got very very involved in civil rights in Ann Harbor right away. Picketing, something I never even knew existed.
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Harbors Michigan Rights
People camped out at his house, and wondering who’s coming to visit, who’s going to be the Secretary of State – that all struck me as inane and stupid.
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Insane People Stupid Wondering
I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base – those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.
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Country Law Military
I always say your body is the temple of your spirit, why not decorate it? My kids say, no, no, your body is the temple of your spirit, keep it clean. I’m covered in tattoos and I get a tattoo every time I write a book. I get the tattoo from the book.
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Book Tattoo Writing
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
I mean, what’s he doing now? He’s evolving. Evolving? Well, evolve for Christ’s sake! And this is a guy – the whole gay community, and the whole environmental community and all these other people said, he’s our guy.
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Christmas Community Evolving Jump People Sake
I don’t regret setting bombs.
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Bombs Regret Settings
Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.
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Busy Injustice Mean
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
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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Growth Organization War

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