Bill Ayers Quotes

Every time you see a black romance it’s over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.

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

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.

We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can’t the politicians respond to that? Because they are the rich. And they are beholden to the rich. It’s a captured system.

I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero – I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.

Imperialism or globalization – I don’t have to care what it’s called to hate it.

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

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.

That’s where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War.

The audience is like my instrument. It’s not just me up there, it’s collaborative.