Alveda King Quotes

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

Of course, the '60s was a study in decadence. Everything just got worse and worse, and at the end of the '60s, everything was so horrible that people were killing each other.

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.

And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.

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

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

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 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.

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

The protest songs of the 1960s and 70s managed to blend political and societal views with music from the heart.

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

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

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

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 was the end of the America that the rest of the world liked.

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

I would love to have been born in the '60s.

What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

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

'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

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

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.