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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.

Bill Ayers

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Bill Ayers
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 26
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Glen Ellyn
Illinois
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William Charles Ayers
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There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were - a real threat, you know? He thought so and we thought so and we were buddies in that regard.
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Nixon probably was a nice guy.
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One of the great crimes of the Bloomberg/Klein administration [in New York City] is that they've removed themselves from communities, as if communities have nothing to say about what their needs and aspirations are for themselves and for their children.
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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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It's the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.
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What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.
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Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.
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In a world as out of balance as this world, everyone can find something to do. And the question isn't can you do everything the question is, can you do anything?
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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.
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Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you.
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I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
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In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don't try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of us went into business. None of us became powerful people like that. All of us pursued our own passions and our own interests. One of my brothers was filmmaker. One of my brothers was a teacher. My sister was a librarian.
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Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.
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Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.
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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 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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[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.
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I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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Education is a right, it's a journey, it's a process, and it's something we have to stand for, as hard as it is.
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