Vietnam Quotes - Page 12

• I dropped out in '64. And I came back to Michigan, in '65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam.

  Bill Ayers

  Michigan, Heard

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard of Vietnam until I was in the merchant marines in constitution square in Athens, and I picked up the New York Herald or the International Herald Tribune and there was my first introduction of the word Vietnam.

  Bill Ayers

  New York, War, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We were very excited and we brought speakers in – then it so happened that there was a marine recruiter in the center of campus and one of our brothers, one SDS person put up a sign with a quote from the Nuremberg trial and an arrow point at the marine recruiter, saying, "This man is a war criminal." My younger brother and I, he was freshman and I was a sophomore, got caught up in the debates that were swirling around the center of campus and the young Trotskyists had put out a fact sheet on Vietnam that was phenomenal.

  Bill Ayers

  Brother, War, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• One-hundred facts about Vietnam and we studied the fact sheet and got in to these arguments and it was fantastic, and I remember one moment when we heard two students saying don't talk to those guys, meaning my brother and me. They've just memorized that stupid fact sheet. And we thought, gosh do we sound that good? It didn't seem possible. But that was my introduction to politics.

  Bill Ayers

  Brother, Stupid, Two

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• My father lived with me the last five years of his life and passed away of Alzheimer's, and at that point he was saying to anyone who would listen, "We all hated the war in Vietnam." Well, it was easy to hate the war in Vietnam 40 years on.

  Bill Ayers

  Father, Hate, War

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on, writing editorials. And in The Voice one day I once referred to him as Commander Askeli. And I called in to The Reporter to go over the galleys of a music piece I had written, and the editor whispered to me, `It's not gonna run. You're not gonna run. Max Askeli has fired you because of what you said about him.'

  Nat Hentoff

  Running, Cheer, War

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.

  Bill Ayers

  Hate, War, Minorities

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to - –when I read these to my students, they think it's Malcom X because it's so radical. And if you read nothing else - if your viewers read nothing else - then the April 4, 1967, speech at Riverside Church called "Beyond Vietnam," that's where he says the greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my country. And he connects the triplets of evil, racism, militarism, and materialism, and that connection makes him a radical.

  Bill Ayers

  Country, Kings, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Organization, Growth

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When I was arrested opposing the war in Vietnam in 1965, as I said about 20 or 30% of people were opposed to the war. By 1968, more than half of Americans were opposed to the war. If you pull in Europeans, Canadians, people from around the Third World, the war was vastly unpopular. But even half of Americans by 1968 opposed the war.

  Bill Ayers

  War, People, Half

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• [ Vietnam War] brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo - against the old line and the new old line. It's the same exact thing today.

  Neil Young

  War, People, Together

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• When I was in Vietnam with Jane Fonda, I was shooting a farmer in a field - just a pastoral scene. And while I was shooting him, an explosion occurred right - he blew up right in my lens, so to speak. And he had stepped on a landmine.

  Haskell Wexler

  Lenses, Shooting, Fields

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• I don't think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me. I think they thought that Nixon was a strong, decisive, tough-minded guy and that I was an idealist and antiwar guy who might not attach enough significance to the security of the country. The truth is, I was the guy with the war record, and my opposition to Vietnam was because I was interested in the nation's well-being.

  George McGovern

  Country, Strong, War

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• The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.

  Sylvester Stallone

  War, Fighting, Winning

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George [Harrison] and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did.

  John Lennon

  War, Thinking, America

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Choices, Goes On

  "The Lost John Lennon Interview". Interview with Tariq Ali, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2005.

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• In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962.

  Noam Chomsky

  Strong, War, Movement

  "Noam Chomsky on Obama’s Foreign Policy, His Own History of Activism, and the Importance of Speaking Out". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 15, 2010.

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• In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, United States, Warfare

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• A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Crazy, Has Beens

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• [Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

  Ernest Hemingway

  Good Friend, Brave, Luck

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• By 1973, John Kerry had already accused American soldiers of committing war crimes in Vietnam, thrown someone else's medals to the ground in an anti-war demonstration, and married his first heiress.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Soldier, Firsts

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• The race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not reopen them.

  John F. Kerry

  White, Race, House

  "Monetary Dean-ominations". www.foxnews.com. April 5, 2012.

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• What is the influence of Sun Tzu in the world today? Perhaps there are others who are better qualified than I to speculate about that question. Sun Tzu's ideas, as expressed in his famous treatise, have undoubtedly influenced the nature of many revolutionary movements that are arrayed against more powerful forces, and in some cases - as in Vietnam - have played a useful role in bringing about success. But such ideas are always in conflict with other deepseated emotional factors, which propel dissident movements into the rampant use of terrorism and other forms of anarchistic struggle.

  William J. Duiker

  Powerful, Struggle, Emotional

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric.

  John F. Kerry

  Simple, Emotional, Needs

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• We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

  John F. Kerry

  Children, Killing, Communism

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