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Bill Ayers Quote: “Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.”

51. “Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.”

Bill Ayers Quote: “The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.”

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

Bill Ayers Quote: “I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.”

53. “I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.”

Bill Ayers Quote: “You will be raising these kids in your mind your whole life. And they will change you. Your little contribution to it – twenty years from now, they’ll be marching off into other things and that’s still the legacy you leave.”

54. “You will be raising these kids in your mind your whole life. And they will change you. Your little contribution to it – twenty years from now, they’ll be marching off into other things and that’s still the legacy you leave.”

Bill Ayers Quote: “What do we hope to accomplish? What will help us realize our deepest dreams and desires? In what ways is education liberating, and in what ways can schooling be entangling and oppressive? Can learning be cast as a creative act, enjoyable and social, or is it always framed as competitive and brutal? What does it mean to be an educated person? What does it mean to be free? Awakened to fundamental and forbidden questions, a new world of possibilities heaves into view.”

55. “What do we hope to accomplish? What will help us realize our deepest dreams and desires? In what ways is education liberating, and in what ways can schooling be entangling and oppressive? Can learning be cast as a creative act, enjoyable and social, or is it always framed as competitive and brutal? What does it mean to be an educated person? What does it mean to be free? Awakened to fundamental and forbidden questions, a new world of possibilities heaves into view.”

Bill Ayers Quote: “I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero – I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.”

56. “I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero – I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.”

Bill Ayers Quote: “I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement...”

57. “I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement...”

Bill Ayers Quote: “We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there’s more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from the fantasies and the mythology that we create around ourselves, or we’re doomed to kind of innocently blunder into every country in the world and murder people.”

58. “We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there’s more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from the fantasies and the mythology that we create around ourselves, or we’re doomed to kind of innocently blunder into every country in the world and murder people.”

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.”

59. “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 Quote: “Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.”

60. “Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.”

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.”

61. “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 Quote: “Chicago ’68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I’ve talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.”

62. “Chicago ’68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I’ve talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.”

Bill Ayers Quote: “I’m different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I’m thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still there. They’re not different.”

63. “I’m different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I’m thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still there. They’re not different.”

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.”

64. “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 Quote: “Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.”

65. “Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.”

Bill Ayers Quote: “Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting – it’s exciting to be in that dialogue.”

66. “Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting – it’s exciting to be in that dialogue.”

Bill Ayers Quote: “I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn’t do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?”

67. “I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn’t do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?”

Bill Ayers Quote: “I’ve said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially horrifying part is the fiscal crisis.”

68. “I’ve said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially horrifying part is the fiscal crisis.”

Bill Ayers Quote: “Terrorists destroy randomly.”

69. “Terrorists destroy randomly.”

Bill Ayers Quote: “I was indicted on two federal conspiracies. My wife was on the Ten Most Wanted list. That’s what fascism was going to look like. That’s what it did look like.”

70. “I was indicted on two federal conspiracies. My wife was on the Ten Most Wanted list. That’s what fascism was going to look like. That’s what it did look like.”

Bill Ayers Quote: “There’s something so remarkable in the intensity of taking care of somebody who can’t take care of him or herself. And then watching that little person bloom into adolescence.”

71. “There’s something so remarkable in the intensity of taking care of somebody who can’t take care of him or herself. And then watching that little person bloom into adolescence.”

Bill Ayers Quote: “I don’t buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I’m an intergenerational person.”

72. “I don’t buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I’m an intergenerational person.”

Bill Ayers Quote: “I find some unity with Ron Paul.”

73. “I find some unity with Ron Paul.”

Bill Ayers Quote: “Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.”

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

Bill Ayers Quote: “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.”

75. “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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