“Boxing is the image of the Vietnam war with none of its guilt and only 25 percent of its dangers. It is… — Irish" Wayne Kelly Copy Share Image
By that time [1966], we did begin to get some protests [against Vietnam War]. But not from liberal intellectuals; they never opposed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
The whole thing about whether you smoke marijuana or not is so ridiculous. That and whether you protested the Vietnam War. Give… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The politics of the exile are fever, revenge, daydream, theater of the aging convalescent. You wait in the wings and rehearse. You… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
When I volunteered for the draft as a 20-year-old, mischievous guy at the height of the Vietnam War, most thought I was… — Dan Pena Copy Share Image
Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Lady, did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?” This film came out at the height of the Vietnam… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Coming of age in the 1960s, I heard the word 'fascist' all the time. College presidents were fascists; Vietnam War supporters were… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“The brave men and women, who serve their country and as a result, live constantly with the war inside them, exist in… — Robert Koger Copy Share Image
The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
“During World War II the top secret “Norden XV” or “Blue Ox” otherwise known the Army Airforce’s “Norden M Series Bombsights,” were… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise 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
“The American soldiers were brave, but courage is not enough. David did not kill Goliath just because he was brave. He looked… — Vo Nguyen Giap Copy Share Image
Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on,… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
In the Sixties, there was a big resistance to the Vietnam War. People began reinterpreting all American history as a series of… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Though the Americans can be fooled, as they have been, and they can be propagandized, as they have been... But, as Lincoln… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“age COG—except for one minor problem. There was no clear communication system that would ensure the nation’s leaders didn’t end up living… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian… — Justin Sane Copy Share Image
The genius of America's endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
My parents came under a provision where the government was specially looking for doctors, because the Vietnam war was happening and many… — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War. — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch. — Andrea Mitchell Copy Share Image
[General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
Barron and Paul...rely on 'specialists' at the State and Defense Departments...Elsewhere in the media, similiar figures are bandied about, with equal credibility. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department intelligence. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border of Afghanistan, I wrote to President Jimmy Carter: We now have the opportunity… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it. — Robert Vaughn Copy Share Image
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