You will be raising these kids in your mind your whole life. And they will change you. Your little contribution to it - twenty years from now, they'll be marching off into other things and that's still the legacy you leave.
Bill AyersThe passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.
Bill AyersThere were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.
Bill AyersIn Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we're told these guys are lazy, they're uneducated, they don't care, they don't have any political instincts - just like the working class in America, apparently - and then suddenly what the hell happened? What was that? They changed the world by changing themselves. Now is that over? No. Is the civil rights movement over? No. These movements have not accomplished what they set out to accomplish.
Bill Ayers