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
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
One-hundred facts about Vietnam and we studied the fact sheet and got in to these arguments and it was fantastic, and I… — 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 world spends two trillion dollars a year on military, and of that two trillion the United States spends one trillion. We… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I was indicted on two federal conspiracies. My wife was on the Ten Most Wanted list. That's what fascism was going to… — 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
Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The president of the University said that night, congratulations to you the students, you've won a great victory, now the war 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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