It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a… — 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
It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Who's the big government guy? These labels are nonsense. And the Tea Party, if you want to call them working class, you… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
We're actually saying, here's a principle that I'd like to arc toward. That's a very different role in life. I didn't expect… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
One-hundred facts about Vietnam and we studied the fact sheet and got in to these arguments and it was fantastic, and I… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] was running for Senate and he's saying, I'm not for gay marriage because I'm a Christian. Jump off a bridge!… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Everyone who knew [Barack] Obama from being in Hyde Park knew he was the smartest guy in any room he walked into;… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious,… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I spoke at the University of Georgia, and a whole contingent of Tea Party people in Hell's Angels regalia came in 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 Image
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 Image
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image