I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the… — 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… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Whether or not the working class came to Chicago in 1969 in the Days of Rage is not a measure of 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 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 was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard… — 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
It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda. — 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
I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
It's worth remembering that in 1965, something like 20% of Americans were against the war. Something like 70% were for the war.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I came back to Ann Harbor, got caught up with people who were much more sophisticated than I, and it was an… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our… — 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
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 were very excited and we brought speakers in then it so happened that there was a marine recruiter in the… — 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
![“I see [Lyndon] Johnson as the war in Vietnam, and the invasion of the Dominican Republic and so on. So I'm not a liberal in that sense, because i think of liberals as part of that establishment.” quote by Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4d5/bill-ayers-1848_dominican-republic_i-see-lyndon-johnson-as-the-war-in-vietn_1314871.jpg)
![“The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what we told ourselves we'd had to do. We had a majority. We were against the war and this created a crisis for democracy and a crisis for the antiwar movement.” quote by Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6f5/bill-ayers-1848_antiwar_the-vietnam-war-s-gone-on-for-three-year_2934124.jpg)
![“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 wheeled by her son waving a big American flag, and then seeing a guy with his baby in his arms saying, "I didn't want her to miss tonight! I wanted to be able to tell her!" And…” quote by Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/806/bill-ayers-1848_able_it-wasn-t-barack-obama-per-se-it-was-the_20409.jpg)
![“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)
![“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].” quote by Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0f8/bill-ayers-1848_arrested_i-d-been-arrested-many-times-by-then-i-d_88658.jpg)
![“[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.” quote by Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/37e/bill-ayers-1848_awakening_the-whole-first-year-at-university-was-a_193300.jpg)