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 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.
We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there's more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from the fantasies and the mythology that we create around ourselves, or we're doomed to kind of innocently blunder into every country in the world and murder people.
Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
I have an addiction to caffeine.
We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.
Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.
I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..
The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.
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.
Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
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.