Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

Bill Ayers Professor

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Dec 26, 1944
  • Died: Sep 24, 1980

William Charles "Bill" Ayers is an American elementary education theorist and a former leader in the counterculture movement that opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for his 1960s radical activism as well as his current work in education reform, curriculum, and instruction. In 1969 he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group that conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings during the 1960s and 1970s in response to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

He is a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, formerly holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar. During the 2008 US presidential campaign, a controversy arose over his contacts with then-candidate Barack Obama. He is married to Bernardine Dohrn, who was also a leader in the Weather Underground.

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

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. home

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