Bill Ayers Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers-settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing-to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence.

  Bill Ayers

  Father, War, Destiny

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

  Bill Ayers

  War, Finals, Path

• 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.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Victory, Defeat

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

• Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Two, People

  "Independent Lens" Interview, www.pbs.org.

• I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard of Vietnam until I was in the merchant marines in constitution square in Athens, and I picked up the New York Herald or the International Herald Tribune and there was my first introduction of the word Vietnam.

  Bill Ayers

  New York, War, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• When I was arrested opposing the war in Vietnam in 1965, as I said about 20 or 30% of people were opposed to the war. By 1968, more than half of Americans were opposed to the war. If you pull in Europeans, Canadians, people from around the Third World, the war was vastly unpopular. But even half of Americans by 1968 opposed the war.

  Bill Ayers

  War, People, Vietnam

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• 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

  Country, War, People

• I came back to Ann Harbor, got caught up with people who were much more sophisticated than I, and it was an exciting time because my eyes were opening and that's always exciting and Michigan is the place where we had the first teach-in against the war.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Eye, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek the presidency again. He would go to Paris and end the war in Vietnam. Well we were ecstatic.

  Bill Ayers

  Spring, War, Paris

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• We were very excited and we brought speakers in – then it so happened that there was a marine recruiter in the center of campus and one of our brothers, one SDS person put up a sign with a quote from the Nuremberg trial and an arrow point at the marine recruiter, saying, "This man is a war criminal." My younger brother and I, he was freshman and I was a sophomore, got caught up in the debates that were swirling around the center of campus and the young Trotskyists had put out a fact sheet on Vietnam that was phenomenal.

  Bill Ayers

  Brother, War, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• The president of the University said that night, congratulations to you the students, you've won a great victory, now the war will end. And I'm certain that he believed it that night and I believed it and we went away happy. Four days later, Martin Luther King was assassinated. Two months after that, Kennedy was assassinated. Two months after that, Henry Kissinger emerged from the swamp he was living in at Harvard with a plan to expand the war.

  Bill Ayers

  Kings, War, Congratulations

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• 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.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Vietnam, Movement

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

• My father lived with me the last five years of his life and passed away of Alzheimer's, and at that point he was saying to anyone who would listen, "We all hated the war in Vietnam." Well, it was easy to hate the war in Vietnam 40 years on.

  Bill Ayers

  Father, Hate, War

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what we told ourselves we'd had to do. We had a majority. We were against the war and this created a crisis for democracy and a crisis for the antiwar movement.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Years, Democracy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Egalitarianism, White

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

• Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.

  Bill Ayers

  Hate, War, Minorities

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Whether or not the working class came to Chicago in 1969 in the Days of Rage is not a measure of their commitment to stopping the war or to seeing life in certain way. There were very few of us who were there, and those of us that were had an illusion about ourselves.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Commitment, Class

  Source: thepointmag.com

• Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the war. And that's what we set out to do. What was not ended by the anti-war movement was ended by the Vietnamese. That's our shame.

  Bill Ayers

  Running, War, Hippie

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

• It's worth remembering that in 1965, something like 20% of Americans were against the war. Something like 70% were for the war. So, it wasn't a popular or an easy thing to do.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Remember, Easy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• I see [Lyndon] Johnson as the war in Vietnam, and the invasion of the Dominican Republic and so on. So I'm not a liberal in that sense, because i think of liberals as part of that establishment.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Thinking, Vietnam

  Source: thepointmag.com

• I thought in 1965 that my job was to convince most Americans to be against the war. So I spent summers knocking on doors, handing out literature, trying to talk to people who didn't agree with me, trying to get them to see the war was wrong. And by 1968 a majority of Americans did oppose the war.

  Bill Ayers

  Summer, Jobs, War

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

• I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Rights, Support

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• I was involved in the anti-war movement.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Movement, Involved

  "'H&C' Panel Reacts to Bill Ayers' Interview With 'Good Morning America'". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. November 17, 2008.

• It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Agendas, Height

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Organization, Growth

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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