134 Quotes by Bill Ayers

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.

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

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.

I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.