If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.
Bill AyersTeaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
Bill AyersOne of the things that happened that I think is noteworthy, my parents were pretty tolerant people given their position in society. They were pretty interesting about being interesting able to look at their children and think oh my children know things and they gave us a lot of sense of our own agency, and that may be a kind of a ruling class trait.
Bill Ayers