Atrocities Quote by Tom Hayden

The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply…

— William Shawcross

The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict nobly fought…

— Nick Turse

“Hanoi’s leaders were virtuoso songbirds of propaganda. They lived in a bubble. There were no voices of dissent in their society to check or…

— Mark Bowden

“who opposed Hanoi not so much on ideological grounds, but because of its methods. They had seen the VC execute or imprison leaders who…

— Mark Bowden

“From the perspective of nearly half a century, the Battle of Hue and the entire Vietnam War seem a tragic and meaningless waste. So…

— Mark Bowden

Before we put an American in harm's way, tell us why. No one wants to see the region descend into further chaos. There's a…

— Xavier Becerra

It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the…

— Gerald R. Ford

Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds…

— Nguyen Qui Duc

“the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and Vietnam, to save Western civilization; Kronstadt and…

— Howard Zinn

The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.

— Noam Chomsky

“Saigon was loved precisely because it was so unlovable - its squalor, its biblical, Job-like misfortune, its imminent, hoevering doom.”

— Tatjana Soli