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All that means to me is that people who have a vision of a better world have a responsibility to open their eyes, to pay attention, to act on what the moment demands, and to be humble about that action.

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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I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.
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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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