Sixto Rodriguez Quotes

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 think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.

The world is very different today than it was in 1968.

I fear that some day or another we shall have in Europe a total upsetting of social order, which will drive all wise and experienced men to America.

Two things are from now on impossible in France: revolution and war.

Wars are started by old rich people. Young people want to party.

The fact that the young, perceiving themselves at a turning point in history, do not feel at home in the society and wish to change it, is a sign of portentous changes and of the difficult travails within which a new humanity is born.

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

This is not class warfare, this is generational warfare. This administration and old wealthy people have declared war on young people. That is the real war that is going on here. And that is the war we've got to talk about.

The youth rebellion [1968] is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will calm down ad be ad execs at thirty as the Establishment would like us to believe.

Wars in general, and civil wars to a greater degree, have the effect of exacerbating class tensions, because the sacrifices of war are always distributed unequally, and the poor are hit hardest.

Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.

Without banging a drum or getting on a soap box, there are always ebbs and tides in this country in terms of the political and social climate that we might be dealing with at any given moment.

I've always known that there are conflicting issues going on where I'm from. It's always been that way.

I think America is just so in love with conflict.

I remember being in Washington for high school when the city was on fire and those were troubling times, the Vietnam War, the protests.

The world is rapidly changing - and with it, we face new global challenges.

The world is pretty messed up.

Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church.

The reversion of American society to a nation of the superrich and the rest... is straining the country in ways that go way beyond economics.

The pressure in Brazil is a little complicated, a little menacing.

Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of a great empire.

I was brought up in a house where I was so aware of a life that had been broken by politics and conflict.

The world is a mess.