134 Quotes by Bill Ayers

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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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    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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    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.

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

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