Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you. Bill Ayers More Quotes by Bill Ayers More Quotes From Bill Ayers 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 carhomepeople 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 halfpastworld Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon. Bill Ayers pentagonideals It was the Democratic Party, it was the Presidential election. We elected a president [Barack Obama]; we didn't elect a king. So all the speculation in the next three months - people camped out at his house, and wondering who's coming to visit, who's going to be the Secretary of State - that all struck me as inane and stupid. Bill Ayers partystupidkings Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them. Bill Ayers parentingcompassionkids 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 morningnightthinking I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters. Bill Ayers shouldherothinking The great example, the killer example in history, is of course Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. Read his speeches. Read the debates. Wendell Phillips called him "the great slaver from Illinois." Bill Ayers illinoisspeechexample The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war. Bill Ayers finalspathwar Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country. Bill Ayers birdcountryamerica I don't regret setting bombs. Bill Ayers settingsbombsregret Frederick Douglass ran a primary campaign against [Abraham Lincoln] the second time around, in 1864. They hated him. Why'd they hate him? Because he said things like "I believe in white supremacy." Bill Ayers hatewhitebelieve 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 live-your-lifeweatherideas I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism. Bill Ayers morningtodaythinking You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values. Bill Ayers way-to-livelifeneeds Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961. Bill Ayers democratic-societydemocraticstudents Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession. Bill Ayers issuesteachingjustice 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 defeatvictorywar 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 wifetwolooks His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism. Bill Ayers communitykingsbook
