Joe Dante Quotes

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

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'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.

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

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

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

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 got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

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.

I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.

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.

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

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

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 folks that are suggesting Occupy move to electoral politics are ignoring history, ignoring what actually creates change. People get involved in electoral politics because they think there is no movement that can create change.

I'm a child of the sixties. I grew up with a president who was a crook, who put us into the most unpopular war in history, who had no communication with people under thirty. I had seen the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Panthers and the Diggers; I understood what they were about.

[ Vietnam War] brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo - against the old line and the new old line. It's the same exact thing today.

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.