When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.
Bill AyersI was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.
Bill AyersEvery revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
Bill AyersI 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.
Bill AyersHis [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.
Bill AyersI'm anti-establishment. So all the labels, the reason that I keep joking and rejecting this idea that I'm liberal, well partly that's because I think of myself as a radical, and by that I mean, not even in the terms of Left-Right that you might imagine - but someone who wants to go to the root of problems.
Bill Ayers