Bill Ayers Quotes
Top 52 wise famous quotes and sayings by Bill Ayers
Bill Ayers Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Bill Ayers on Wise Famous Quotes.
Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.
Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
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.
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.
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.
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.
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.
I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.
Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.
I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..
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.
But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.
I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base - those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.
I don't think saying "I was wrong here, I was wrong there" absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you into heaven.
When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.
The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see.
I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.
I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.
One hundred years from now, we'll all be dead. It's hard to believe. One hundred years from now, everyone we see every day will be gone.