Quotes from Bill Ayers

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

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.

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

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

I have an addiction to caffeine.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

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.

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

What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

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.

Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.

I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.

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

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

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

Terrorists destroy randomly.

It felt to me like I was living my life in a way that didn't make mockery of my values. That's what I intended to do. So, that became a very radicalizing proposition for me.

I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.

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.

When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.