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
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
It felt to me like I was living my life in a way that didn't make mockery of my values. That's what… — 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
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
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
Fairly apolitical. Kind of aspiring to participate in life. I'm 18-19 years old. Wanting to dive into the world and finding the… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Now teach-ins are fairly common or they become common place. But in 1965, the Students for Democratic Society in Ann Harbor organized… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Without a doubt. It's woven into our DNA in a very deep way and so to kind of be smacked in the… — 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
One question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don't have… — 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
You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values. — 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
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
[Students for a Democratic Society] was on many campuses and it was a powerful organization. It was founded by Tom Hayden, who… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be. — 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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