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> [ Frederick Douglass ran a primary campaign against \[Abraham Lincoln\] the second time around, in 1864. They hated him. Why'd they hate him?… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/frederick-douglass-ran-a-primary-campaign-against-abraham-lincoln-the/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

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> [The great example, the killer example in history, is of course Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. Read his speeches. Read the debates.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/the-great-example-the-killer-example-in-history-is-of-course-abraham/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

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> [ That's what \[Abraham\] Lincoln said. "The white man will always be above the black man. I don't want them to run for… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/that-s-what-abraham-lincoln-said-the-white-man-will-always-be-above/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

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## Other authors on Abraham lincoln

## More by Bill Ayers

> [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/it-wasn-t-barack-obama-per-se-it-was-the-feeling-on-the-ground-it-was/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

> [I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/i-didn-t-respond-to-people-thrusting-microphones-at-me-and-asking-me/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

> [I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/i-haven-t-been-silent-i-teach-i-lecture-at-universities-i-write-i-m/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

> [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/one-of-the-great-crimes-of-the-bloomberg-klein-administration-in-new/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

> [I was involved in the anti-war movement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/i-was-involved-in-the-anti-war-movement/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

> [ \[Lyndon \] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/lyndon-johnson-was-responding-to-a-black-freedom-movement-that-was/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

> [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/i-m-wary-of-government-part-of-the-tea-party-impulse-is-to-dislike/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

> [ I'd been arrested many times by then. I'd been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years \[from 1965 till 1968\]. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/i-d-been-arrested-many-times-by-then-i-d-been-an-organizer-so-many/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/you-cannot-live-a-political-life-you-cannot-live-a-moral-life-if-you/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

> [I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/i-was-a-good-liberal-in-some-sense-at-that-point-i-wanted-to-end-a/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

> [The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school. Five years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/the-fact-is-that-in-my-prep-school-i-went-to-a-boarding-school-39/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

> [ \[The whole first year at university\] was a great time for me and great time of awakening. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/the-whole-first-year-at-university-was-a-great-time-for-me-and-great/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

> [The truth is that the antiwar movement was powered by the working class. The students were the ones that got the media and so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/the-truth-is-that-the-antiwar-movement-was-powered-by-the-working/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

> [There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were - "a real threat," you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/there-was-one-moment-when-j-edgar-hoover-and-us-had-the-same/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

> [Every politician - FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama - they're all conservative by nature. They are part of the big thing and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/every-politician-fdr-lyndon-johnson-abraham-lincoln-barack-obama-they/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

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