Quotes about 1960s

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

Hollywood, Woodstock, nor the hippie culture was the source of power of the 1960's freedom movement. God was.

Christian theology is for the liberation of all humanity, and it could never be neutral in the fight against oppression. That much I knew. And that was how A Black Theology of Liberation was born: with the spirit of Martin and Malcolm, Jimmy, and the black poets of the 1960s.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

Thomas Sowell asserts that by the late 1960's, black men from families with a library card, magazines and other literature in the home reached high-level occupations as often as white males of similar backgrounds.

In the 1960s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.