--- title: "12 Guy Quotes By Bill Ayers" description: "12 Guy quotes by Bill Ayers. Plus more from Bill Ayers and more Guy sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe8/bill-ayers-1848_guy_nixon-probably-was-a-nice-guy-2605757_2605757.png" --- > [Nixon probably was a nice guy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/nixon-probably-was-a-nice-guy/) [Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe8/bill-ayers-1848_guy_nixon-probably-was-a-nice-guy-2605757_2605757.png) > [It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/it-was-frederick-douglass-john-brown-harriet-tubman-wendell-phillips/) [Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ed/bill-ayers-1848_abolition_it-was-frederick-douglass-john-brown-har_641394.jpg) > [ After I had known \[Barack Obama\] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/after-i-had-known-barack-obama-for-a-while-i-remember-saying-to-my/) [Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f90/bill-ayers-1848_ambitious_after-i-had-known-barack-obama-for-a-whi_2468703.jpg) > [ Everyone who knew \[Barack\] Obama from being in Hyde Park knew he was the smartest guy in any room he walked into;… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/everyone-who-knew-barack-obama-from-being-in-hyde-park-knew-he-was/) [Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cc/bill-ayers-1848_ambitious_everyone-who-knew-barack-obama-from-bein_2238556.png) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/we-re-actually-saying-here-s-a-principle-that-i-d-like-to-arc-toward/) [Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4af/bill-ayers-1848_arcs_we-re-actually-saying-here-s-a-principle_1087486.png) > [I spoke at the University of Georgia, and a whole contingent of Tea Party people in Hell's Angels regalia came in and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/i-spoke-at-the-university-of-georgia-and-a-whole-contingent-of-tea/) [Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33c/bill-ayers-1848_agree_i-spoke-at-the-university-of-georgia-and_2886445.jpg) > [One-hundred facts about Vietnam and we studied the fact sheet and got in to these arguments and it was fantastic, and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/one-hundred-facts-about-vietnam-and-we-studied-the-fact-sheet-and-got/) [Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a4/bill-ayers-1848_argument_one-hundred-facts-about-vietnam-and-we-s_1206044.png) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/in-cairo-these-young-men-hanging-around-in-the-street-we-re-told/) [Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/960/bill-ayers-1848_accomplish_in-cairo-these-young-men-hanging-around_403277.png) > [I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/i-don-t-know-why-there-s-not-more-activism-today-i-do-think-that-your/) [Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca5/bill-ayers-1848_activism_i-don-t-know-why-there-s-not-more-activi_2452261.png) > [ \[Barack Obama\] was running for Senate and he's saying, I'm not for gay marriage because I'm a Christian. Jump off a bridge!… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/barack-obama-was-running-for-senate-and-he-s-saying-i-m-not-for-gay/) [Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/730/bill-ayers-1848_barack_barack-obama-was-running-for-senate-and_1577133.png) > [Who's the big government guy? These labels are nonsense. And the Tea Party, if you want to call them working class, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/who-s-the-big-government-guy-these-labels-are-nonsense-and-the-tea/) [Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f8/bill-ayers-1848_big-government_who-s-the-big-government-guy-these-label_688623.jpg) > [ It wasn't \[Barack\] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a… ](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/806/bill-ayers-1848_able_it-wasn-t-barack-obama-per-se-it-was-the_20409.png) ## Other authors on Guy ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guy/bill-ayers/#itemlist", "name": "12 Guy Quotes By Bill Ayers", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Nixon probably was a nice guy.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bill Ayers" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/nixon-probably-was-a-nice-guy/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe8/bill-ayers-1848_guy_nixon-probably-was-a-nice-guy-2605757_2605757.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe8/bill-ayers-1848_guy_nixon-probably-was-a-nice-guy-2605757_2605757.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe8/bill-ayers-1848_guy_nixon-probably-was-a-nice-guy-2605757_2605757.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Nixon probably was a nice guy.” — Bill Ayers", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. 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And afterwards the head of the group got to the microphone and said, I'm surprised that I agree with almost everything you said, but I'm worried that you're a big government guy.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bill Ayers" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/i-spoke-at-the-university-of-georgia-and-a-whole-contingent-of-tea/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33c/bill-ayers-1848_agree_i-spoke-at-the-university-of-georgia-and_2886445.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33c/bill-ayers-1848_agree_i-spoke-at-the-university-of-georgia-and_2886445.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33c/bill-ayers-1848_agree_i-spoke-at-the-university-of-georgia-and_2886445.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I spoke at the University of Georgia, and a whole contingent of Tea Party people in Hell's Angels regalia…” — Bill Ayers", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "One-hundred facts about Vietnam and we studied the fact sheet and got in to these arguments and it was fantastic, and I remember one moment when we heard two students saying don't talk to those guys, meaning my brother and me. They've just memorized that stupid fact sheet. And we thought, gosh do we sound that good? It didn't seem possible. 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What was that? They changed the world by changing themselves. Now is that over? No. Is the civil rights movement over? No. These movements have not accomplished what they set out to accomplish.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bill Ayers" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/in-cairo-these-young-men-hanging-around-in-the-street-we-re-told/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/960/bill-ayers-1848_accomplish_in-cairo-these-young-men-hanging-around_403277.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/960/bill-ayers-1848_accomplish_in-cairo-these-young-men-hanging-around_403277.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/960/bill-ayers-1848_accomplish_in-cairo-these-young-men-hanging-around_403277.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we're told these guys are lazy, they're uneducated…” — Bill Ayers", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation ever was, but the problem with being smart like you guys is that it can lead you really easily to being cynical, and cynicism is actually a pacifying attitude.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bill Ayers" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/i-don-t-know-why-there-s-not-more-activism-today-i-do-think-that-your/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca5/bill-ayers-1848_activism_i-don-t-know-why-there-s-not-more-activi_2452261.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca5/bill-ayers-1848_activism_i-don-t-know-why-there-s-not-more-activi_2452261.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca5/bill-ayers-1848_activism_i-don-t-know-why-there-s-not-more-activi_2452261.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter…” — Bill Ayers", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "[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! I mean what the hell are you talking about? You know, I mean, what's he doing now? He's evolving. Evolving? Well, evolve for Christ's sake! And this is a guy - the whole gay community, and the whole environmental community and all these other people said, he's our guy.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bill Ayers" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/barack-obama-was-running-for-senate-and-he-s-saying-i-m-not-for-gay/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/730/bill-ayers-1848_barack_barack-obama-was-running-for-senate-and_1577133.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/730/bill-ayers-1848_barack_barack-obama-was-running-for-senate-and_1577133.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/730/bill-ayers-1848_barack_barack-obama-was-running-for-senate-and_1577133.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“[Barack Obama] was running for Senate and he's saying, I'm not for gay marriage because I'm a Christian…” — Bill Ayers", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Who's the big government guy? 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