Haskell Wexler Quotes

It's always been young people at the forefront of any revolution.

Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

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.

I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.

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.

There is a point in fighting. There is a point in struggle. Not wholesale revolution, maybe, that might not be possible, an absolutely just society, but there are plenty of spaces and places where it's worth putting up a fight.

I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.

You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.

At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: ‘Here in the face of power we will sit and create a new society, in which you do count.’

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

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.

'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.

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.

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.

A movement that doesn't produce a backlash isn't much of a movement at all.

Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced from pressures from below.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.

At university, my generation were ready to fight, but we didn't really have anything to fight for.

I am of that '60s generation, and for people of my age, that phrase 'change the world' has a real resonance.

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.