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
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'm wary of government. Part of [the Tea Party] impulse is to dislike and be worried about the rich. I'm that way… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
When I was arrested opposing the war in Vietnam in 1965, as I said about 20 or 30% of people were opposed… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base - those people should be allowed to vote… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in… — 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
All that means to me is that people who have a vision of a better world have a responsibility to open their… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed… — 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
Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
In a wild and diverse democracy each of us should be trying to talk to lots and lots and lots of people… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
When you go into a college of education you've got aspirations of making a difference in people's lives, of loving children, of… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there's more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from… — 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
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
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The end of Students for a Democratic Society is viewed by me and a lot of other people as a terrible sorry… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black… — 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
I thought in 1965 that my job was to convince most Americans to be against the war. So I spent summers knocking… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
We have sex education - I'm for it, I'm not against it. But any curriculum should recognize that it's young people's job… — 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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