Common Quote by Bill Ayers

“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.”

Bill Ayers

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I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

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I'd been arrested many times by then. I'd been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968].

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