Bill Ayers Quotes

My father believed in armed struggle.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

I am still radical!

I am a radical.

Politics for me started in violence.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.

... my link to the bomb throwers.

Only force would produce social change.

The absolutists of contract are the real parents of revolution.

I am an apostle of violence

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

We don't have to go around as the Protestant reformation did, or as the socialist revolution did, and execute each other as soon as we are successful - assuming we'll ever be successful.

I'm not an anarchist. I'm not saying, "Burn it to the ground."

We are revolutionaries.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

I was born in revolution.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.