Where's the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows.… — 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
What was on the agenda was school and social life and those kinds of things. So I was the middle of five… — 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 don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I don't think saying "I was wrong here, I was wrong there" absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I see [Lyndon] Johnson as the war in Vietnam, and the invasion of the Dominican Republic and so on. So I'm not… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I get up every morning and think, today I'm going to make a difference. Today I'm going to end capitalism. Today I'm… — 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 don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious,… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I'm different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I'm thinking. But the basic principles that have powered… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I'm anti-establishment. So all the labels, the reason that I keep joking and rejecting this idea that I'm liberal, well partly that's… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I do think [Barack Obama's] strategy for re-election is so misguided. He's counting on the Republicans to self-destruct, and they might, you… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Well, first of all I think that we have to be careful with terms like the working class, obviously. When [Karl] Marx… — 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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