Quotations

The 50s:

I mean, man, whiter goest thou? Whiter goes thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? (Jack Kerouac)

I tell you, the New Frontier is here, whether we seek it or not. (John F. Kennedy)

The 60s:

Can a man who is warm understand one who is freezing? (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

We thought the world could be changed. We thought one man could make a difference. Pragmatic, idealistic, activist. This was an interventionist administration. (Roger Hilsman, U.S. Dept. of State, speaking of Kennedy)

Western civilization has always glorified the hero, the sacrifice of life for the city, the state, the nation; it has rarely asked the question of whether the established city, state, nation were worth the sacrifice. (Herbert Marcuse)

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon the apparatus and you’ve got to make it stop. (Mario Savio, Sproul Hall, Berkeley, CA.)