Bill Ayers Quotes

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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.

  Bill Ayers

  Home, People, Car

  "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen". www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2001.

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• I get up every morning and think, today I'm going to make a difference. Today I'm going to end capitalism. Today I'm going to make a revolution. I go to bed every night disappointed but I'm back to work tomorrow, and that's the only way you can do it.

  Bill Ayers

  Morning, Thinking, Night

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• Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.

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  Pentagon, Ideals

  Bill Ayers (2002). “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist”, p.264, Beacon Press

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• Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

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  Country, America, Bird

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• The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.

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  Past, Half, World

  "Bill Ayers: The United States Is the Foremost Threat to World Peace Today". Interview with Kourosh Ziabari, en.farsnews.com. December 06, 2014.

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• The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.

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  War, Finals, Path

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• I don't regret setting bombs.

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  Regret, Bombs, Settings

  Bill Ayers (2002). “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist”, p.311, Beacon Press

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• Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

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  Kids, Parenting, Compassion

  "An Unconditional Embrace". Interview with Gabriel Lyon, www.tolerance.org. Spring 1998.

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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.

  Bill Ayers

  Teaching, Issues, Justice

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• I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.

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  Hero, Thinking, Should

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• I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism.

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  Morning, Thinking, Today

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• Education is the motor-force of revolution.

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  Revolution, Force, Motor

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• 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.

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  War, Victory, Defeat

  William Ayers (2009). “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist”, p.114, Beacon Press

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• You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

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  Life, Needs, Way To Live

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• The idea that you live your life in phases - I've never bought that. I feel like I'm the same person who sat in at the draft board in 1965, I'm the same person who joined a fraternity, I'm the same person who got an MFA at Bennington, and I'm the same person who founded Weather Underground. My values are still intact.

  Bill Ayers

  Weather, Ideas, Live Your Life

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to - –when I read these to my students, they think it's Malcom X because it's so radical. And if you read nothing else - if your viewers read nothing else - then the April 4, 1967, speech at Riverside Church called "Beyond Vietnam," that's where he says the greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my country. And he connects the triplets of evil, racism, militarism, and materialism, and that connection makes him a radical.

  Bill Ayers

  Country, Kings, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I was indicted on two federal conspiracies. My wife was on the Ten Most Wanted list. That's what fascism was going to look like. That's what it did look like.

  Bill Ayers

  Two, Wife, Looks

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church, your pastor, your parents, common sense, tradition, everything. You would have been against everything.

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  Law, White, Common Sense

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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

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  Writing, Lectures, Silent

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• The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school. Five years later, a quarter of us were in SDS, in Students for Democratic Society. Not because we were particularly chosen or because we were as I say, we were lucky but we were mainly luckily to grow up at a time where this black freedom movement was really defining the moral character of what it meant to be a citizen and a person.

  Bill Ayers

  Growing Up, School, Character

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• [Students for a Democratic Society] was on many campuses and it was a powerful organization. It was founded by Tom Hayden, who passed away very recently. It was one of the founders of SDS and that chief writer of the Port Huron Statement, which is still worth reading. It's kind of the Bernie Sanders campaign document in a funny way.

  Bill Ayers

  Powerful, Reading, Organization

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.

  Bill Ayers

  World, Logic, Capitalism

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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

  Bill Ayers

  Mind, Paranoid

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• I find some unity with Ron Paul.

  Bill Ayers

  Unity

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• But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

  Bill Ayers

  Boys, Mind, Fool

  William Ayers (2009). “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist”, p.59, Beacon Press

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