Bill Ayers Quotes

I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.

The '60s were an amazing time.

I was born in 1952, so obviously the sixties were important. That's when I came of age. It was also a revolutionary period, a complete break with the generation before us in terms of culture, literature, music, and in politics, of course. 1968 was an important year; I was 16, and the world became clear to me, visible, so to say.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

The '60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

I disliked everything about the '60s.

I grew up in the 1970s, and my friends and I felt very keenly that we had missed the '60s. We were bummed out about it.

To talk about the '60s almost brings tears to my eyes. What we did. What we all did. We changed the world.

I am of that '60s generation, and for people of my age, that phrase 'change the world' has a real resonance.

I grew up in that era of Hendrix and Joplin and The Doors, and the Summer of Love and Haight-Ashbury, and even the Panthers. That was my era; that's what I was into.

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.

I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.

I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about political choices, ideology, Marxism, revolution, 'the system' and so on.

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life - into music, into the pulpits, in churches of our country. It spilled over into the city streets, police forces. And even if you were born late in the generation, Vietnam was still part of your childhood.

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

I would love to have been born in the '60s.

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.

The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous.

I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it.