Artist Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show us America's…

— Shawn Amos

My parents were activists and my mother was hugely involved with the anti-Vietnam War protests.

— Rosanna Arquette

Television and movies were our biggest teachers. When we came to the United States, the Vietnam War was just ratcheting up. And so the…

— Alex Tizon

Because of my song 'Sam Stone,' a lot of people thought I was interested in writing protest songs. Writing protest songs always struck me…

— John Prine

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

— Robert Vaughn

“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 a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.

— Maria Dahvana Headley

The Vietnam War was taking place, which was raising all sorts of questions in the United States, and it was forcing Asian-Americans to stop…

— Grace Lee Boggs

I believe strongly that the word 'protest' is no excuse for bad work. The artist must create.

— John Kani

By that time [1966], we did begin to get some protests [against Vietnam War]. But not from liberal intellectuals; they never opposed the war.

— Noam Chomsky

I was working in the gap where Martin Luther King, Jr. quoted communism and Warhol appropriated the protest image and named it riot, which…

— Kelley Walker