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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?

Bill Ayers

The way it happened was that we were advocating for a strike that we advocated that the faculty should strike in solidarity with the Vietnamese struggle.
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Advocated Country Struggle Way
Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
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Bird Century Country
You will be raising these kids in your mind your whole life. And they will change you. Your little contribution to it – twenty years from now, they’ll be marching off into other things and that’s still the legacy you leave.
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Change Kids Mind Rising Years
Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.
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Busy Injustice Mean
Terrorists destroy randomly.
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Destroy Randomly Terrorist
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 find some unity with Ron Paul.
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Find Some Unity
That’s in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn’t work, but it’s very hard to predict what will work.
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Change Hard Social Work
There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the ’50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.
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Ideas Political Privilege
Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
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Excited Narcissism Writing
It was one of the founders of SDS and that chief writer of the Port Huron Statement, which is still worth reading. It’s kind of the Bernie Sanders campaign document in a funny way.
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Campaign Document Funn Reading Way
They were pretty interesting about being interesting able to look at their children and think oh my children know things and they gave us a lot of sense of our own agency, and that may be a kind of a ruling class trait.
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Children Country Kind May Ruling Sense
“We all hated the war in Vietnam.” Well, it was easy to hate the war in Vietnam 40 years on.
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Country Easy Hated People War
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
I dropped out in ’64. And I came back to Michigan, in ’65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam.
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Country Dropped Heard People

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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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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