1960s Quotes

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s. - Camille Paglia

When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else. - Anselm Kiefer

When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain. - Robert Vaughn

When they blasted the bedrock in the late 1960s to early 1970s for the construction of various facilities, they created seams. Do they know exactly where those seams are? I don't think they do, but the seams created flow paths toward the river. - Jim Steets

When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it. - Paul Bremer

When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s. - Vanessa Carlton

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement. - Jonathan Kozol

When I first started practicing law in the 1960s, no person had ever won a case against the City of Los Angeles for violation of their civil rights. There came a time when I felt morally I just could not try these cases anymore. I then left the office and my time in private practice has been interesting to say the least. - Johnnie Cochran

When a war is long-lived and the outcome is not demonstrably positive, the lines of argument available to a president are seriously constrained. Democrat or Republican, 1960s or early part of the 21st century, you're going to hear a common rhetoric. - Kathleen Hall Jamieson

What was here before was a 1960s motel, which was cute and interesting in the 1960s and maybe in the 70s, but by the 80s it became derelict and needed to be transformed. - Pritam Singh