Bernardine Dohrn Quotes

North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.

The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted in public, as people who didn't know what would happen next, but who were sure that acts of true risk and fear would produce something different from what they had been raised to take for granted.

'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.

Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.

The '60s were an amazing time.

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

The '60s was a time of unthinkabilities.

In a way, 'On the Road's greatest victory is that nobody's eyes will be opened any longer by reading it; the last time I met any young people who were actually 'on the road' was when I covered Occupy St. Louis. Those few, dirty kids were fighting a battle even they couldn't articulate.

In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.

I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

There's no single movement out there. It's not like in the '60s, when Revolver came out and that's just it for the next year.