One question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don’t have a knee-jerk kind of 1930s thing about we must build the unions and that’s the way to the future.
BILL AYERS
I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.
![Bill Ayers Quote - [Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/martin-luther-king-king-was-a-socialist-and-king-w.jpg)
![Bill Ayers Quote - I do think [Barack Obama’s] strategy for re-election is so misguided. He’s counting on the Republicans to self-destruct, and they might, you know, but they might not. So he might be a one-term president.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/i-do-think-barack-obamas-strategy-for-re-election--683x1024.jpg)
![Bill Ayers Quote - After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, “You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago.” That was the limit of my imagination.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/after-i-had-known-barack-obama-for-a-while-i-remem.jpg)
![Bill Ayers Quote - Even there, [Barack] Obama’s generals, his Pentagon, they’re telling him what to do. And the force for gay rights is inevitable. And you can say Obama will help us, and maybe he will, but only if we have something on the ground that will make him help us.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/even-there-barack-obamas-generals-his-pentagon-the.jpg)
