Nancy Wilson 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 was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

'Turn to Stone' was written about the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War and the protesting that was going on and all of that. It's a song about frustration. Also, I attended Kent State.

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Americans–mostly under 30–are determined to destroy our society

Did Lincoln hate America when he voted against the Mexican War? Did Mark Twain hate America when he made speeches against the Spanish American War? If you love your country you will find ways to speak out …

Most of my stuff was sort of of-the-time. 'The Crazies' was, basically, we were angry about Vietnam, and it had a reason for being.

The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.

Majored in staying out of Vietnam.

One of the things I am most proud of is refusing to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam War.

Enough is enough. This is how we get started in Vietnam.

We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George [Harrison] and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did.

When I was arrested opposing the war in Vietnam in 1965, as I said about 20 or 30% of people were opposed to the war. By 1968, more than half of Americans were opposed to the war. If you pull in Europeans, Canadians, people from around the Third World, the war was vastly unpopular. But even half of Americans by 1968 opposed the war.

The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and they were going to perhaps be forced to go overseas and fight in an immoral war.

Often I'll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn't have to for the '70s... I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.

Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.

We spent a lot of time talking about politics at home. We went to the camp at Greenham Common.

It is not a campaign. It is a rebellion. We are in active rebellion against our government. The social contract is broken, the governments aren't protecting us and it's down to us now.

Each day, I send my kids to school, and I know other members' kids should also go to school, but we do not support our schools being turned into parliaments.