Bill Ayers

“I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.”

“Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.”

“I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.”

“It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.”

“I didn't kill innocent people.”

“I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.”

“I find some unity with Ron Paul.”

“Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.”

“We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.”

“Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”

“You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.”

“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.”

“Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.”

“Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.”

“I was a militant.”

“I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.”

“I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.”

“I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.”

“I was involved in the anti-war movement.”

“You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.”