Bill Ayers Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• 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.

  Bill Ayers

  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.

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

  Bill Ayers

  Morning, Thinking, Today

• 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

• I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

  Bill Ayers

  Learning, Intelligence, Intellectual

• The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.

  Bill Ayers

  Passion, Commitment, Today

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

• 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.

  Bill Ayers

  Eye, Simple, Reality

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

• One question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don't have a knee-jerk kind of 1930s thing about we must build the unions and that's the way to the future. I'm writing this book right now called Pallin' Around, and the subtitle is: "Talking to the Tea Party." And frankly I find talking to the Tea Party exhilarating, I love it.

  Bill Ayers

  Party, Book, Writing

  Source: thepointmag.com

• I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation ever was, but the problem with being smart like you guys is that it can lead you really easily to being cynical, and cynicism is actually a pacifying attitude.

  Bill Ayers

  Attitude, Smart, Thinking

  Source: thepointmag.com

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