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
One hundred years from now, we'll all be dead. It's hard to believe. One hundred years from now, everyone we see every… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I found the place where I was beaten bloody forty years earlier and dragged to jail and that made me cry. When… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Education is a right, it's a journey, it's a process, and it's something we have to stand for, as hard as it… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
To me, activism requires you to try very hard to open your eyes to the world as it is. See as much… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will… — 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
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