Accomplishment Quote by Thomas Frank

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more…

— Jon Meacham

“Still, the more profound and prophetic stance on the right has been Adams’s: cede the field of the public, if you must, but stand…

— Corey Robin

“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

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

Once involved in the school-prayer fight, I rapidly became aware of, and appalled by, the political and economic power of the Church in America…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.

— Marianne Williamson

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

I think a lot of things have become associated with the Right. For example, an unapologetic commitment to progress and modernity is now almost…

— Claire Fox

“What did trust, cooperation, progressive taxation and the interventionist state bequeath to western societies in the decades following 1945? The short answer is, in…

— Tony Judt

The Right has focused on expanding economic liberty through tax cuts, free trade, and deregulation.

— Michael J. Knowles

“But for a younger generation of conservative operatives who would soon rise to power... They were true believers who meant what they said, whether…

— Barack Obama

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

— Adlai E. Stevenson