Bill Ayers Quotes

I was a militant.

- Bill Ayers

I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.

- Bill Ayers

I was involved in the anti-war movement.

- Bill Ayers

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

- Bill Ayers

I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.

- Bill Ayers

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

- 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 felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.

- Bill Ayers

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.

- Bill Ayers

The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.

- Bill Ayers

Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.

- Bill Ayers

Nixon probably was a nice guy.

- Bill Ayers

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

- Bill Ayers

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.

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

- Bill Ayers

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

- Bill Ayers

I find some unity with Ron Paul.

- Bill Ayers

I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.

- Bill Ayers

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

- Bill Ayers

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

- Bill Ayers

I have an addiction to caffeine.

- Bill Ayers

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

- Bill Ayers

I didn't kill innocent people.

- Bill Ayers

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

- Bill Ayers

I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.

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Terrorists destroy randomly.

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I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.

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I don't regret setting bombs.

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Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

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Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

- Bill Ayers