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One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.

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Bill Ayers
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 26
Autobiographer
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University Teacher
Glen Ellyn
Illinois
William Charles Bill Ayers
William Charles Ayers
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It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.
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I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.
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[John] McCain seemed to be winking to the Right, and [Barack] Obama seemed to be winking to the Left. Neither one of them - if McCain had been elected we'd still be where we are on gay rights.
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It's the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.
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I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.
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Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
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There was a sense of palpable relief that George [W.] Bush was leaving and that the Republicans had slipped back and that was a wonderful feeling.
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I wasn't part of John Kennedy's vision of the world, or Lyndon Johnson's. I thought of them as anti-Communist imperial monsters.
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Without a doubt. It's woven into our DNA in a very deep way and so to kind of be smacked in the face with the hypocrisy of the America that we were sold was a liberating and harsh experience.
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I'm different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I'm thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still there. They're not different.
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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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What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.
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I don't regret setting bombs.
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I have an addiction to caffeine.
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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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I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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The Right said, [Barack Obama] is lying, he's a socialist who pals around with terrorists, he's a secret Muslim and blah blah blah. That was their line. The liberals all said, He's winking at me, I can feel him winking in my direction. He wasn't winking. He said exactly who he was and he's lived that out perfectly.
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Now teach-ins are fairly common or they become common place. But in 1965, the Students for Democratic Society in Ann Harbor organized the first teach-in. 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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This 1965. We went to trial on our city. We were obviously borrowing tactics and strategy from the Black freedom movement, and we were echoing their approach to things.
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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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