Vietnam Protests Quotes & Sayings

The point of books is to combat loneliness. — David Foster Wallace

The genius of America's endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the costs of war largely invisible. — Glenn Greenwald

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights. — John Wooden

Theodore Sorensen wrote for [Robert Kennedy's 1968] announcement speech: "At stake is not simply the leadership of our party, and even our own country, it is our right to the moral leadership of this planet." The sentence absolutely appalled all the younger Robert Kennedy advisers, who felt it smacked of just the kind of attitude which had gotten us into Vietnam. Nonetheless, despite their protests, it stayed in the speech. — David Halberstam

It used to break my heart that I didn't get to start in varsity soccer! — Rachel Platten

No matter where the body is, the mind is free to go elsewhere. — W.H. Davies

If your woman is asleep every time you get home, she's just really tired. Of you. — Regina King

Their most telling improvement involved a fundamental parameter: population size of the hosts. — David Quammen

I'm not here to make money, I'm here to make history. — Lenny Dykstra

I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam War. As a climber, I've felt connected to a similar nonconformist culture, one opposed to society's increasing materialism, pollution and corruption. Our approach to the rock - clean, traditional climbing, with the least dependence on equipment - was an extension of this ethical viewpoint. — Lynn Hill