Bill Ayers
Bill Ayers
William Charles "Bill" Ayers is an American elementary education theorist and a former leader in the counterculture movement who opposed US involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for his 1960s radical activism and his current work in education reform, curriculum and instruction. In 1969, he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group with the intent to overthrow imperialism, that conducted a campaign of bombing public buildingsduring the 1960s and 1970s in response to US involvement in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 December 1944
CountryUnited States of America
I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism.
Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.
I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.
Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
I find some unity with Ron Paul.
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.
Education is the motor-force of revolution.
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
In a wild and diverse democracy each of us should be trying to talk to lots and lots and lots of people outside of our own kind of comfort zone and community, and that injunction goes even further for political leaders. They should talk to everyone, they should listen to everyone, and at the end of the day they should have a mind of their own.
I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.
But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.