Peter Riegert Quotes

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

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

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.

Disruption of the New Left

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

In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.

I think my father had a lot of anti-establishment in him. He came through the '60s.

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.

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

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.

There is certainly greatness in the '60s generation. They changed our attitudes about race in America, which was long overdue. They didn't just stand up and salute when told to go to war. Women finally began to realize a more equal place in our society.

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.

A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldn't have happened without the social changes.

Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn't have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.

To talk about the '60s almost brings tears to my eyes. What we did. What we all did. We changed the world.

In the '60s and '70s, a protest song was a genre in music.

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.

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.

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

Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life - into music, into the pulpits, in churches of our country. It spilled over into the city streets, police forces. And even if you were born late in the generation, Vietnam was still part of your childhood.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s is more global. It was a time of tremendous transition, not only for America but for the whole world.

The '60s were an amazing time.