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> [“THESE MANIFESTATIONS OF BACKLASH—against family breakup, illegitimacy, welfare, crime, riots, black activists, anti-war demonstrators, long-haired hippies, government programs that favored minorities, elitists,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-t-patterson/these-manifestations-of-backlash-against-family-breakup-illegitimacy/)

[James T. Patterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-t-patterson/)

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> [That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/that-s-where-we-all-kind-of-were-in-the-mid-1960s-students-for-a/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

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> [In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-w-wood/in-the-mid-1960s-as-hard-to-believe-as-it-may-be-now-choosing-to-go/)

[Allen W. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-w-wood/)

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> [I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-eno/i-got-interested-in-the-idea-of-music-that-could-make-itself-in-a/)

[Brian Eno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-eno/)

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