Agitation Quote by Danny Glover

I was a member of the Black Student Union, part of the central committee at San Francisco State. During the 1968 strike there, I…

— Danny Glover

“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, liberals generally—exposed…

— James T. Patterson

We had people who did housing, people who did anti-war, people who did schools. Everyone operated in their own niche, but not separately. We…

— Lynne Stewart

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the…

— Angela Davis

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

— Shelby Steele

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom…

— Ray Stannard Baker

The strike and its outcome had an enormous impact on the system of education and on our lives as well. The strike began as…

— Danny Glover

I was in an organization called Progressive Labor Party and International Committee Against Racism. And I was - I started out helping to organize…

— Boots Riley

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

— Molly Ivins

“The volunteers merely dropped in for a summer, then went home to question America. Some would spearhead the events that defined the 1960s—the Berkeley…

— Bruce Watson

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

I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.

— Sara Zarr