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I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.

Bill Ayers

Two months after that, Kennedy was assassinated. Two months after that, Henry Kissinger emerged from the swamp he was living in at Harvard with a plan to expand the war.
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Assassinated Emerged Expand Living War
Where’s the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows.
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Parks Revolution Thinking
The president of the University said that night, congratulations to you the students, you’ve won a great victory, now the war will end. And I’m certain that he believed it that night and I believed it and we went away happy. Four days later, Martin Luther King was assassinated.
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Assisted Congratulations Kings War
We’re actually saying, here’s a principle that I’d like to arc toward. That’s a very different role in life. I didn’t expect [Barack] Obama to go to the root of things. I didn’t expect him to have a principled position on anything. I mean, just pay some moderate attention to the guy.
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Guy Mean Roots
[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.
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Ends Kings Luther
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
The world spends two trillion dollars a year on military, and of that two trillion the United States spends one trillion. We have a bigger military than the rest of the world put together. We have 150 foreign military bases.
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Dollar Military Spend Two Years
Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.
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Experiments Fascinating Relationship
The day before every revolution that’s ever happened, that revolution was impossible. The day before Rosa Parks, that was impossible. The day after, it was inevitable.
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Before Day Knows Nobody Revolution
One of the things that happened that I think is noteworthy, my parents were pretty tolerant people given their position in society.
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Agency Children Thinking
So that’s kind of amazing. But he was offered a cabinet post by Eisenhower in his second term. So he was moderate Republican. But if you asked him, he would’ve said, “I don’t have any politics. I’m a business person.” Mainstream, the American view, as he understood it.
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Country Eisenhower Moderate Republican
Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
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Broken Numbers People
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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Children Fire Military Trillion World
Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.
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Hate Minorities War
When you go into a college of education you’ve got aspirations of making a difference in people’s lives, of loving children, of working with kids, but none of that is affirmed in your college of education.
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Children Country School
It’s not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it’s the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson.
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Black Movement

I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.

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