If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church,… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don't try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
One of the things that happened that I think is noteworthy, my parents were pretty tolerant people given their position in society.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
My father lived with me the last five years of his life and passed away of Alzheimer's, and at that point he… — 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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![“We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.” quote by Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2ce/bill-ayers-1848_argument_we-have-arguments-with-my-father-and-we_1055714.jpg)
![“I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.” quote by Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bb0/bill-ayers-1848_father_i-went-underground-so-i-didn-t-see-my-fa_1962613.jpg)
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![“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 nothing to say about what their needs and aspirations are for themselves and for their children.” quote by Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cfb/bill-ayers-1848_administration_one-of-the-great-crimes-of-the-bloomberg_36172.jpg)
![“[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do as a conservative politician.” quote by Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4e4/bill-ayers-1848_black_lyndon-johnson-was-responding-to-a-black_39317.jpg)
![“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 I don't find them to be as atrocious as most people do, as your liberals do. I'm not a liberal.” quote by Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f9a/bill-ayers-1848_dislike_i-m-wary-of-government-part-of-the-tea-p_60556.jpg)
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