Bill Ayers Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Bill Ayers:
Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
~Bill Ayers
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We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.
~Bill Ayers
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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.
~Bill Ayers
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I have an addiction to caffeine.
~Bill Ayers
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I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.
~Bill Ayers
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It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.
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I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.
~Bill Ayers
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I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.
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I didn't kill innocent people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
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I find some unity with Ron Paul.
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Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.
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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.
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Terrorists destroy randomly.
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I was a militant.
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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.
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The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.
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Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.
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I don't regret setting bombs.
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Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
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I was involved in the anti-war movement.
~Bill Ayers
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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.
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I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
~Bill Ayers
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Nixon probably was a nice guy.
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I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.
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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.
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