It's not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it's the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
This 1965. We went to trial on our city. We were obviously borrowing tactics and strategy from the Black freedom movement, and… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The truth is that the antiwar movement was powered by the working class. The students were the ones that got the media… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we're told these guys are lazy, they're uneducated, they don't care, they… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Even there, [Barack] Obama's generals, his Pentagon, they're telling him what to do. And the force for gay rights is inevitable. And… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I was from my little perch in a prep school I saw the civil rights movement and it was defining the moral… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being… — Bill Ayers Copy Share
I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite. — Bill Ayers Copy Share
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. — Bill Ayers Copy Share
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… — Bill Ayers Copy Share
[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do… — Bill Ayers Copy Share
I'm wary of government. Part of [the Tea Party] impulse is to dislike and be worried about the rich. I'm that way too. So… — Bill Ayers Copy Share
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]. — Bill Ayers Copy Share
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… — Bill Ayers Copy Share
I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights… — Bill Ayers Copy Share
The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school. Five years… — Bill Ayers Copy Share
[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening. — Bill Ayers Copy Share
The truth is that the antiwar movement was powered by the working class. The students were the ones that got the media and so… — Bill Ayers Copy Share
There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were - "a real threat," you… — Bill Ayers Copy Share
Every politician - FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama - they're all conservative by nature. They are part of the big thing and… — Bill Ayers Copy Share
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