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 Image
When I was arrested opposing the war in Vietnam in 1965, as I said about 20 or 30% of people were opposed… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Being arrested that also changed everything for me because I was suddenly seeing America from a different perspective all together. I did… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
My brother and I met several times during that weekend trying to figure out what we were each going to do, and… — 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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