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I remember when you couldnt even mention environmental issues without a snicker. But then in the 70s people got tired of seeing the Cuyahoga…

— Senator John Kerry

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change,…

— Margot Robbie

Through protest - especially in the 1950s and '60s - we, as a people, touched greatness. Protest, not immigration, was our way into the…

— Shelby Steele

All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“THE ESCALATING DEMANDS for rights after 1965, and especially the riots, did more than bewilder people. They also aroused significant backlash, the most vivid…

— James T. Patterson

The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.

— Brock Yates

It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of…

— Oliver Tambo

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

— Molly Ivins

Protests, such as those in favor of labor rights, women's suffrage, civil rights and gay rights, helped to make America as great as it…

— Max Boot

“Think of this: Hundreds of people today are doing things that not a single one of the them would have dared to do at…

— Václav Havel