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Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.

I was involved in the anti-war movement.

I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

I don't regret setting bombs.

I didn't kill innocent people.

We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

Bill Ayers