Grateful Quote by John Hume

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

— Molly Ivins

We had good years, with no violence, in a sense we were victims of our success.

— Ari Shavit

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became…

— Joan Baez

It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a lot of…

— Noam Chomsky

It was an extreme time, in a certain sense... I was totally and profoundly influenced by the revolutionary movements of the '60s and '70s.

— Susan Rosenberg

The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not…

— Coretta Scott King

I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it…

— Vivienne Westwood

All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the…

— Osman Baydemir

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

— Michelle Bachelet

Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air,…

— Anonymous

As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.

— Matthew Weiner

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

— Donald Tusk