Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
By the 1970s, the American woman was being called 'liberated' or 'superwoman' while the American man was being called 'baby killer' if… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam… — Jonathan Yardley Copy Share Image
We could not bring democracy and freedom to Vietnam at a cost acceptable to ourselves. The idea that that was what we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
The reason I'm not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Why was the United States so afraid of an independent South Vietnam? Well, I think the reason again is pretty clear from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But… — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
“McNamara’s electronic fence, which the Jasons called an “anti-infiltration barrier,” was constructed along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, at a cost of… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was kind of feeling a spiritual need all those years. My wife Geraldine and I went to an Episcopalian Church for… — Robert Novak Copy Share Image
And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
“I write about what life was like for typical young women of the sixties—not the type that made headlines, the Hanoi Janes… — Kay Kendall Copy Share Image
I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam… — Lynn Hill Copy Share Image
The White House begun airing their TV commercials to re-elect the president, and the John Kerry campaign is condemning his use of… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
As you know, several times, McCain talked about serving his country in Vietnam, which is a nice change after 16 years and… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I believe that when you know something's going wrong, you make it right. That's what I learned in Vietnam. When I came… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
I was asked in a way when Honorable Elijah Mohammed said take the step, choose between the wealth of America and the… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I lost my athletic scholarship by injuring my right knee. That right knee kept me out of Vietnam, and I went into… — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by… — Birch Bayh Copy Share Image
The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam… — Paul Dickson Copy Share Image
The Vietnam war will not be over until it ends for everyone. Over four hundred thousand U.S. veterans are still recovering from… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
You could think about Vietnam and at some point in time about Nigeria. And then you head to South America: Argentina, Columbia,… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
I didn't come here without a visa, like everyone from China and Vietnam and Cuba. I came here by special plane... received… — Bikram Choudhury Copy Share Image
If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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“Viet Nam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
It wasn't the Medal of Honor that changed my life. It was being in Vietnam itself. The close situations changed my whole… — Michael E. Thornton Copy Share Image
Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I say openly that I am an anti-war person, with the point being, show me some reason not to be against this… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
It was obvious uh, that uh, the situation in Vietnam was far from stable in 1964 and that there, if in fact… — McGeorge Bundy Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the Left routinely resists, then as now: Americans fought and died in Vietnam for freedom, just as… — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
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