Action Quote by Bill Ayers

Like everyone else, I was at least peripherally involved in the antiwar movement. You woke up every morning feeling tormented about what was going…

— Robert Hass

We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight…

— Robert McNamara

The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what…

— Bill Ayers

Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the…

— Gerald R. Ford

I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“What I saw in Washington that October were a lot of Americans who were genuinely dismayed by what their country was doing in Vietnam;…

— John Irving

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

— George McGovern

Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.

— Nat Hentoff

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

— Ronald Reagan

“The Viet Cong were not the idealistic warriors of American antiwar propaganda; they were vicious. They relied on terror.”

— Mark Bowden

A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year…

— Martin Luther King, Jr