Bill Ayers Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

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

  Bill Ayers

  Children, Fire, World

  "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen". Interview with Dinitia Smith, www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2001.

• 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

  Dream, Children, America

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• One of the things that happened that I think is noteworthy, my parents were pretty tolerant people given their position in society. They were pretty interesting about being interesting able to look at their children and think oh my children know things and they gave us a lot of sense of our own agency, and that may be a kind of a ruling class trait.

  Bill Ayers

  Children, Thinking, Agency

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don't try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of us went into business. None of us became powerful people like that. All of us pursued our own passions and our own interests. One of my brothers was filmmaker. One of my brothers was a teacher. My sister was a librarian.

  Bill Ayers

  Teacher, Brother, Children

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• When you go into a college of education you've got aspirations of making a difference in people's lives, of loving children, of working with kids, but none of that is affirmed in your college of education. Then you go working in schools, especially in places like New York City and Chicago that I'm most familiar with, and you find these huge aspirations are beaten out of you in a very systematic way - and still people persevere.

  Bill Ayers

  New York, Children, School

  Source: www.smithmag.net

• One of the great crimes of the Bloomberg/Klein administration [in New York City] is that they've removed themselves from communities, as if communities have nothing to say about what their needs and aspirations are for themselves and for their children.

  Bill Ayers

  New York, Children, Cities

  Source: www.smithmag.net

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