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It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys is in favor of slavery, right?
Bill Ayers
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Bill Ayers
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: December 26
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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 dropped out in '64. And I came back to Michigan, in '65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam.
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I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard of Vietnam until I was in the merchant marines in constitution square in Athens, and I picked up the New York Herald or the International Herald Tribune and there was my first introduction of the word Vietnam.
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Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
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I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could change the world. And number two, we believed that another world was possible. And once that belief took hold of some critical mass, a tiny minority nonetheless, but a critical mass of people, then the world did change.
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Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.
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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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I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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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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