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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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Bill Ayers
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 26
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Peace Activist
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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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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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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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Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.
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I've said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially horrifying part is the fiscal crisis.
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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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Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
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When I was arrested opposing the war in Vietnam in 1965, as I said about 20 or 30% of people were opposed to the war. By 1968, more than half of Americans were opposed to the war. If you pull in Europeans, Canadians, people from around the Third World, the war was vastly unpopular. But even half of Americans by 1968 opposed the war.
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The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.
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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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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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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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Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, How shall we respond to the dreams of youth? It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer--a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.
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Politicians are conservative by nature.
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I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice.
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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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[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 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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If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.
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Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course they can also be contradictory.
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