Certain Quote by Bill Ayers

My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved his life…

— Kim Basinger

I remember being in Washington for high school when the city was on fire and those were troubling times, the Vietnam War, the protests.

— Neil Bush

“For these reasons the Vietnam-era army (unlike the armies that had fought in World War II or Korea) consisted disproportionately of the poor, minority…

— James T. Patterson

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

— Elia Kazan

I was a member of the Black Student Union, part of the central committee at San Francisco State. During the 1968 strike there, I…

— Danny Glover

“ALL THESE CONFRONTATIONS PALED before the outbreak of urban riots in 1966 and 1967. There were thirty-eight riots in 1966, the most serious in…

— James T. Patterson

That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the…

— Bill Ayers

Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it…

— Bill Ayers

“Antiblack violencein Chicago was common since at least the 189-s, when blacks were brought in as strikebreakers. The violence grew with the black population.…

— Cameron McWhirter

[The strike in 1968] brought us together with teachers and also with progressive whites. All of us came from diverse backgrounds, but at the…

— Danny Glover

In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone,…

— Jane Byrne

For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is…

— Rahm Emanuel