Quotes from Bill Ayers

That's what [Abraham] Lincoln said. "The white man will always be above the black man. I don't want them to run for office, or have political rights, or vote. I want them to go back to Africa."

In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying "I'm sorry," is that there's so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.

I was a militant.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I was involved in the anti-war movement.

The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.

Nixon probably was a nice guy.

I find some unity with Ron Paul.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

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

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.

Education is a right, it's a journey, it's a process, and it's something we have to stand for, as hard as it is.