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Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven.

Bill Ayers

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Bill Ayers
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 26
Autobiographer
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Glen Ellyn
Illinois
William Charles Bill Ayers
William Charles Ayers
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My father lived with me the last five years of his life and passed away of Alzheimer's, and at that point he was saying to anyone who would listen, We all hated the war in Vietnam. Well, it was easy to hate the war in Vietnam 40 years on.
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Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.
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[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.
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I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.
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I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.
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Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
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I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.
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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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Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in Tunisia and Cairo. What they had in common was people who were told, and who believed inside themselves, that they were a certain way, and the society at large believed it.
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I do think [Barack Obama's] strategy for re-election is so misguided. He's counting on the Republicans to self-destruct, and they might, you know, but they might not. So he might be a one-term president.
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I came back to Ann Harbor, got caught up with people who were much more sophisticated than I, and it was an exciting time because my eyes were opening and that's always exciting and Michigan is the place where we had the first teach-in against the war.
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I have an addiction to caffeine.
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If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.
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If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the literature of anti-communism, it's every bit as dogmatic.
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