--- title: "6 Luther Quotes By Bill Ayers" description: "6 Luther quotes by Bill Ayers. Plus more from Bill Ayers and more Luther sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42a/bill-ayers-1848_angle_his-martin-luther-king-last-book-where-d_2006204.png" --- > [ His \[Martin Luther King\] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/his-martin-luther-king-last-book-where-do-we-go-from-here-chaos-or/) [Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42a/bill-ayers-1848_angle_his-martin-luther-king-last-book-where-d_2006204.png) > [Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/martin-luther-king-was-only-an-activist-for-13-years-and-every-year/) [Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c40/bill-ayers-1848_activist_martin-luther-king-was-only-an-activist_2077508.png) > [If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/if-you-read-martin-luther-king-speeches-and-sermons-in-the-last-two/) [Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eab/bill-ayers-1848_april_if-you-read-martin-luther-king-speeches_2289877.png) > [ \[Martin Luther King\] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/martin-luther-king-king-was-a-socialist-and-king-was-an-activist-who/) [Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cc/bill-ayers-1848_activist_martin-luther-king-king-was-a-socialist_2404157.png) > [The president of the University said that night, congratulations to you the students, you've won a great victory, now the war will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/the-president-of-the-university-said-that-night-congratulations-to/) [Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59c/bill-ayers-1848_certain_the-president-of-the-university-said-tha_2804064.png) > [I mean the prime case that you can look at is Martin Luther King, who was only an activist for 13 years.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/i-mean-the-prime-case-that-you-can-look-at-is-martin-luther-king-who/) [Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/628/bill-ayers-1848_activist_i-mean-the-prime-case-that-you-can-look_3090061.jpg) ## Other authors on Luther ## 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/luther/bill-ayers/#itemlist", "name": "6 Luther Quotes By Bill Ayers", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bill Ayers" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/his-martin-luther-king-last-book-where-do-we-go-from-here-chaos-or/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42a/bill-ayers-1848_angle_his-martin-luther-king-last-book-where-d_2006204.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42a/bill-ayers-1848_angle_his-martin-luther-king-last-book-where-d_2006204.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42a/bill-ayers-1848_angle_his-martin-luther-king-last-book-where-d_2006204.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to…” — Bill Ayers", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical. 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