Bill Ayers > Quotes

“Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”
― Bill Ayers

“You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.”
― Bill Ayers

“I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..”
― Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days: A Memoir

“You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.”
― Bill Ayers

“You know more about your child than I can ever hope to know, what advice can you give me to make a better teacher for her?”
― William Ayers, To Teach, 2nd Edition

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

“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, Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto

“There is no sound so sweet as the sound of chains that held folks back for so long falling noisily to the ground. And it's still true: Once we can reimagine and resist in significant numbers, we will rise again, reaching new heights and setting better foundations for living and loving, for building a new world.”
― Bill Ayers, Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto

“Thousands, tens of thousands, and millions right now are mobilizing to stoke those fires from below, to develop a shared faith that injustice can be opposed and justice aspired to, that human solidarity and connectedness can become a living force, that a spirit of courage can be tempered with vast feelings of love and generosity, and that a full and passionate embrace of the lives we're given can be combined with an eagerness to move forward toward a worldwide beloved community.”
― Bill Ayers, Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto