Bill Ayers quotes

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 have an addiction to caffeine. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you. View quote
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I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas. View quote
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I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. View quote
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I find some unity with Ron Paul. View quote
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Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable. View quote
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Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. View quote
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Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war. View quote
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I was involved in the anti-war movement. (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. View quote
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I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire. View quote
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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. View quote
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I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna. View quote
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I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans. View quote
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Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be. View quote
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Terrorists destroy randomly. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Nixon probably was a nice guy. (Bill Ayers)
We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act. View quote
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Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it. View quote
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Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession. View quote
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I didn't kill innocent people. View quote
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