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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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Bill Ayers
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 26
Autobiographer
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Peace Activist
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Glen Ellyn
Illinois
William Charles Bill Ayers
William Charles Ayers
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In a world as out of balance as this world, everyone can find something to do. And the question isn't can you do everything the question is, can you do anything?
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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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In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying I'm sorry, is that there's so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.
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Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in Tunisia and Cairo. What they had in common was people who were told, and who believed inside themselves, that they were a certain way, and the society at large believed it.
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Nixon probably was a nice guy.
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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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Education is a right, it's a journey, it's a process, and it's something we have to stand for, as hard as it is.
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The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.
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Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven.
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We're actually saying, here's a principle that I'd like to arc toward. That's a very different role in life. I didn't expect [Barack] Obama to go to the root of things. I didn't expect him to have a principled position on anything. I mean, just pay some moderate attention to the guy.
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That's what [Abraham] Lincoln said. The white man will always be above the black man. I don't want them to run for office, or have political rights, or vote. I want them to go back to Africa.
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Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you.
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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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It's the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.
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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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The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore.
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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 didn't kill innocent people.
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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.
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Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.
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