Anti Vietnam War Quotes

• The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Home

  Thomas F. Jackson, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2007). “From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice”, p.319, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

  John F. Kerry

  Mistake, Men, Vietnam

  Testimony before Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 22 Apr. 1971

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• In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

  Yoko Ono

  War, Thinking, Vietnam

  "Just imagine". Interview with Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 03, 2001.

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• Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. A few stirred-up women brought about women's voting. The Populist movement, the Progressive movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement - the examples go on and on of 'little people' getting together and telling the truth about their lives. They made our government act.

  Unita Blackwell

  War, Writing, Government

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• We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley.

  Bobby Seale

  War, Party, California

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• So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.

  Diane Wakoski

  War, People, Black

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• Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s, I had something that the current generation doesnt have. And that is a sense of efficacy.

  Paul Solman

  War, Struggle, Rights

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Stupid, War

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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