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I'm wary of government. Part of [the Tea Party] impulse is to dislike and be worried about the rich. I'm that way too. So I don't find them to be as atrocious as most people do, as your liberals do. I'm not a liberal.

Bill Ayers

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Bill Ayers
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: December 26
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Glen Ellyn
Illinois
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Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the war. And that's what we set out to do. What was not ended by the anti-war movement was ended by the Vietnamese. That's our shame.
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There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black people in the South don't want an education, they don't want to vote, they're simple people, they don't want this, they don't want that.
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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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The truth is that the antiwar movement was powered by the working class. The students were the ones that got the media and so forth, but it was the soldiers on the ground who really energized the antiwar movement in the late Sixties.
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Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist 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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Nixon probably was a nice guy.
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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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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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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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You can be disappointed but only if you thought [Barack Obama] was something that he said he wasn't!
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We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can't the politicians respond to that? Because they are the rich. And they are beholden to the rich. It's a captured system.
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Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
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I don't regret setting bombs.
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Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.
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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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