Bill Ayers

I don't regret setting bombs.

— Bill Ayers

Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and…

— Bill Ayers

One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it…

— Bill Ayers

Whether or not the working class came to Chicago in 1969 in the Days of Rage is not a measure of their…

— Bill Ayers

Politicians are conservative by nature.

— Bill Ayers

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

I don't think of myself as a particularly nostalgic person.

— Bill Ayers

Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're…

— Bill Ayers

I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard…

— Bill Ayers

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

I've said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially…

— Bill Ayers

Agitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren't bound by those rules. We're not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?

— Bill Ayers

Education is a right, it's a journey, it's a process, and it's something we have to stand for, as hard as it…

— Bill Ayers

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

— Bill Ayers

I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown…

— Bill Ayers

Frederick Douglass ran a primary campaign against [Abraham Lincoln] the second time around, in 1864. They hated him. Why'd they hate him?…

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Being arrested that also changed everything for me because I was suddenly seeing America from a different perspective all together. I did…

— Bill Ayers

This 1965. We went to trial on our city. We were obviously borrowing tactics and strategy from the Black freedom movement, and…

— Bill Ayers

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,

— Bill Ayers

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

I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other…

— Bill Ayers

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

— Bill Ayers

I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.

— Bill Ayers

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

— Bill Ayers

But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions…

— Bill Ayers