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
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The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.
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Terrorists destroy randomly.
I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.
I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.
I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
I was involved in the anti-war movement.
I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.
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.
I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base - those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.
Nixon probably was a nice guy.