Choose one:
To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher (Teachers College Press)
A Kind and Just Parent:The Children of Juvenile Court (Beacon)
Teaching Toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom (Beacon)
City Kids/ City Schools (The New Press)
Then make up your own mind, and send me a comment.
Bill Ayers 
I know one comment out of many may not mean much, but I just wanted to say I support you. I don’t know you at all, but I do know that you are a human being, and as such, you deserve to be treated like one. Not as a scapegoat, but as a person, one who can reason, despite anyone else’s inability to do so as well. Good luck, Jean Valjean.
You’re still guilty, more people now know, academia still doesn’t care (further proving its irrelevance). What a great country!
Greetings to the other commenters, sycophants all.
Dear Bill,
I came to your website just trying to find out more about you – what with all the hailstorm of the news media – and read some of the hate mail.
Does it ever occur to you that all you really need to do to solve this problem is write a lousy but best-selling autobiography where you turn on your friends and trash everything you once believed in – in return for some quick cash and the respect of people like Dick Cheney?
David Horowitz can certainly help you if you are thinking of going in this direction.
Just a thought. Hope it made you smile.
Mr. Ayers-
I have read “To Teach” as part of my graduate program and found it insightful and, actually, it was the first time I’ve ever heard your name (and I never knew about your involvement with The Weather Underground until several years later.) I’ll be checking out the other books from your list and perhaps re-reading that one. Thank you!
Dear Professor Ayers,
I am writing because I wanted to share my thoughts with you. I am a disgusted and saddened that the only way I could learn about you, was to sit down and do some research. That being said, I am also quite thankful that I could think freely enough to look for my own answers. I owe much of that to a teacher, much like you, who once taught me to ask questions and think for myself. A lesson more important, I have never learned.
Congratulations on your efforts in teaching and promoting civil rights. Keep up the good work and hang in there. America needs you.
I am looking forward to reading your books.
Gerard
New York
As an attorney who works with kids and their dysfunctional parents, I spend a lot of time explaining that people at 20, 40 and 60 are different people. Thanks for proving the point. Chin up. this too will pass. And remember- they can never take your IQ away.
With Respect,
jane in Akron
Bill all I have to say is FUCK YOU… I hope you die you fucking bastard. I hope I can be there to watch you die slowly.
Hello, Mr Bill Ayers. Im a born again Christian, that loves the lord. Theres a higher cause for you in life, is to except Jesus Christ, died on the cross for you. I love you and Jesus loves you! Your ways are against true freedom, and God calls you home, too fight for true freedom and too stop the bonage of satan! Please turn form fighting God and fight along side us, and for the cross. And except Jesus in your heart! I dont know what to think about all the political stuff, but this nation once was a Godly nation of many freedoms, until the dark worriors of Satan, damaged it, now we are in a economic fall. If you are a Dark worrior of Satans, and Im not saying you are, if you are, turn form it and be a worrior of Christs, the light. For darkness burns hottest! Well I hope you get this and take Christ into your heart! For the times are near to end and its my job to make sure, you wont got to hell, where Satan and his demons wait for you.
Godslight
Hi Bill,
Unfortunately I am just finding out about the work that you are involved with and I do commend you on the transformation that has taken place in your life. I will be picking up one of your books to read, as it will probably be a great help to me in my studies.
Also I would like to say how upset I am with McCain and his constant lies. They call it defamation of character right? As I sat here and watched him, on David Letterman, say that you said on 9/11 “I am sorry that I didn’t bomb more”, I am very upset as I know that your words were misplaced and taken out of context. Please continue to do the work that you are doing and I also think you are some kind of individual to constantly turn the other cheek while people (mccain) are constantly bashing you and twisting your words to benefit their cause. God Bless!
Maggie
It’s very bizarre that at the beginning of this year I happened to be induging myself in my longstanding fixation with the 60’s. I was rewatching The Weather Underground documentary, reading your memoir, along with Harvey Pekar’s graphic novel history of the SDS and Kirkpatrick Sale’s 1973 tome, SDS and watching a series called “What We Want, What We believe” which is a visual and personal recollection of the Panthers. Then for some reason I saw on FOX (why was I watching???) mentions of Obama’s ties to you. How oddly coincidental. Anyway, like those hippies in the Weather doc said: “We didn’t do it but we dug it!” I think you guys were absolutely in the right to fuck up federal property that represented the Imperial Powers engaged in an imperialistic war of oppression with the clear intent to only destroy property and not human life. “All your private property is target for your enemy.” Whoops!! Is Big Bro reading this? Why do all the crazy rednecks come out and post on these things anyway? One more thing, when are they going to erect a statue to Fred Hampton in Chicago? Are you doing something about that? That should be your legacy.
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