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Bill Ayers Quote: I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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  • Bill Ayers Quote - I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
  • Bill Ayers Quote - I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
  • Bill Ayers Quote - I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
  • Bill Ayers Quote - I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
  • Bill Ayers Quote - I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
  • Bill Ayers Quote - I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.

Bill Ayers

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Ayers Quote - To me, activism requires you to try very hard to open your eyes to the world as it is. See as much as you can, knowing that whatever you see is going to be partial. That you possess a partial consciousness in an infinite and expanding universe.

    To me, activism requires you to try very hard to open your eyes to the world as it is. See as much as you can, knowing that whatever you see is going to be partial. That you possess a partial consciousness in an infinite and expanding universe.

    BILL AYERS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Ayers Quote - I don’t know that I ever bought into the “American dream.” I was a child of privilege. I grew up in the ’50s and it was a quiet time in America, at least on the surface and I grew up in a kind of feathery bed of privilege.

    I don’t know that I ever bought into the “American dream.” I was a child of privilege. I grew up in the ’50s and it was a quiet time in America, at least on the surface and I grew up in a kind of feathery bed of privilege.

    BILL AYERS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Ayers Quote - Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.

    Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.

    BILL AYERS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Ayers Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Ayers Quote - It was one of the founders of SDS and that chief writer of the Port Huron Statement, which is still worth reading. It’s kind of the Bernie Sanders campaign document in a funny way.

    It was one of the founders of SDS and that chief writer of the Port Huron Statement, which is still worth reading. It’s kind of the Bernie Sanders campaign document in a funny way.

    BILL AYERS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Ayers Quote - I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I’d been more unifying, I wish I’d been more principled.

    I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I’d been more unifying, I wish I’d been more principled.

    BILL AYERS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Ayers Quote - “We all hated the war in Vietnam.” Well, it was easy to hate the war in Vietnam 40 years on.

    “We all hated the war in Vietnam.” Well, it was easy to hate the war in Vietnam 40 years on.

    BILL AYERS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Ayers Quote - But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

    But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Ayers Quote - The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.

    The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.

    BILL AYERS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Ayers Quote - What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.

    What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.

    BILL AYERS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Ayers Quote - So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan’s home.

    So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan’s home.

    BILL AYERS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Ayers Quote - I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

    I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

    BILL AYERS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Ayers Quote - I get up every morning and think, today I’m going to make a difference. Today I’m going to end capitalism. Today I’m going to make a revolution. I go to bed every night disappointed but I’m back to work tomorrow, and that’s the only way you can do it.

    I get up every morning and think, today I’m going to make a difference. Today I’m going to end capitalism. Today I’m going to make a revolution. I go to bed every night disappointed but I’m back to work tomorrow, and that’s the only way you can do it.

    BILL AYERS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Ayers Quote - After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, “You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago.” That was the limit of my imagination.

    After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, “You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago.” That was the limit of my imagination.

    BILL AYERS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Ayers Quote - 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.

    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.

    BILL AYERS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Ayers Quote - What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.

    What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.

    BILL AYERS