#sixties

I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution. ↗

— Curt Flood

#apart #asia #child #coming #constitution

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually. ↗

— Barney Frank

#combat #community #community action #early #early sixties

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#me #part #political #real #sixties

The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything. ↗

— Bill Lee

#ago #asked #believed #day #everything

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. ↗

— John Lennon

#behind #cliche #eternal #his #left

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#characterized #heady #instantaneous #sixties #solutions

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. ↗

— John Major

#blocks #britain #built #communities #destroyed

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special. ↗

— Marc Maron

#could #great #name #probably #seventies

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#their #trouble #writers #young

I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties. ↗

— Paul Merton

#after #am #chronological #dvds #i