Gay rights Quote by Michael Albert

“Positive legacy of the 1960s was the revolutions in civil rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, and gay rights, which began to consolidate power in…

— Steven Pinker

Radical feminism, male lesbians, transsexuals, musical condoms with suspenders, and lotsa drummers drumming are all manifestations of a political agenda with roots in the…

— Rush Limbaugh

What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what seems the…

— Rebecca Solnit

“I have often pointed out to students that the Jim Crow order had a specific and relatively brief life span. It was not completely…

— Adolph L. Reed Jr

Yes, the '60s went too far, but we were trying to find new ways, better ways, to do things. And great seeds were planted:…

— John Densmore

“Over the last 25 years, the major popular movements that have had significant impact on the general society and have changed it, that have…

— Noam Chomsky

We're the end of the baby boomers, and we participated in many social changes. Who would of thought, for example, when the AIDS epidemic…

— Todd Haynes

“It was left to the Progressive movement in America (as to the Fabians in Britain) to promote eugenics, Prohibition, dietary fads, the compulsory sterilisation…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“By the time the sixties hit their home bases, we the kids, were already born, and our parents found themselves stuck between an entrenched…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement, the women's…

— Steven Van Zandt

“Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation: These bonded white people into a broad aristocracy united by the salient fact of unblackness.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The pre-Sixties reformist Left, insofar as it concerned itself with oppressed minorities, did so by proclaiming that all of us –– black, white, and…

— Richard M. Rorty