Age Quote by David Talbot

I was involved in the civil rights movement way back in the late '50s and through the '60s and '70s. I was doing a…

— George Takei

I'm a child of the '60s, I came of age then. I went to a couple of demonstrations, and then in the late '60s…

— Simi Linton

My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I was brought…

— Madeleine Peyroux

I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18,…

— Radhanath Swami

When I was 15 years old in the tenth grade, I heard Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I…

— John Lewis

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father…

— Marianne Williamson

When John Kennedy was assassinated I was twenty-three, a stockbroker on Wall Street and married, and I never ever thought that politics would be…

— Barbara Boxer

I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay…

— Barney Frank

I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed - for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s,…

— Barney Frank

I was 10 years old when my father was assassinated in 1968. Then, I had some sense of the sacrifices and hardships required of…

— Martin Luther King III

I got involved in politics in order to help working people in my community - especially the Black people who had gotten the short…

— Vernon Jones

I had begun what I thought might be a career in social work. I was married and deeply involved in the anti-war movement. I…

— John Dufresne