America Quote by Shelby Steele

Racism plagued America throughout the '60s, into the '70s, through the '80s; it continued in the '90s and in the first decade of the…

— Jack Schlossberg

By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights.

— H. W. Brands

Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried…

— Jackson Katz

You may think things didn't change much after the 60s 'revolution' - but they did. The levels of prescriptive disapproval for anyone who stepped…

— Vashti Bunyan

“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

I think the activism of the 1960s had a very definite civilizing effect on the whole society in all kinds of ways. So lots…

— Noam Chomsky

The '60s was the end of the America that the rest of the world liked.

— Julie Newmar

1963, because of the sense of moral authority that the civil rights movement had, we were able to get people to respond, because of…

— John Lewis

We are here to make a better world. No amount of rationalization or blaming can preempt the moment of choice each of us brings…

— Abbie Hoffman

I think many of the ideas that opened up in the '60s got implemented in the '70s and that certain minority voices that were…

— Todd Haynes

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

“Their expectations, however, had grown grand indeed, and they were impatient. Increasingly, they sought not only benefits but also guarantees and entitlements. The rise…

— James T. Patterson