Vietnam Quotes - Page 13

• Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Two, People

  "Independent Lens" Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

  Bill Ayers

  Country, War, People

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• I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the 'The New York Times' and 'The Washington Post' and other newspapers from publishing papers that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.

  Floyd Abrams

  New York, Block, War

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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• The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.

  Mike Gravel

  Soldier, Dying, Vain

  Mike Gravel's speech at the 2008 Democratic primary Presidential debate in Orangeburg, South Carolina, www.nbcnews.com. April 26, 2007.

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• Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.

  Merle Haggard

  Country, Strong, War

  Merle Haggard (2002). “Merle Haggard: Poet of the Common Man : the Lyrics”, p.55, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts for the future historian, and what do they say? They say 'Auschwitz' and 'Dresden' and 'Hiroshima' and 'Vietnam' and 'Napalm.' For many years we all woke up to the daily body count on the radio. And if there were a way to kill people with the B Minor Mass, the Pentagon-Madison Avenue axis would have found it.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Death, Science, Axes

  Erwin Chargaff (1977). “Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science”, Harper San Francisco

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• I'm old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.

  Waylon Jennings

  Crazy, Boys, Thinking

  Song: G.I. Joe

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• I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.

  Sebastian Junger

  Military, Cynical, Connections

  "A Few Good Men". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2010.

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• It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Writing, Years, Way

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• I was largely drinking to forget where I was. When you’re in a place like Vietnam, you get to a point where you don’t care any more. You’re in a place that’s foreign to you, and you know for a fact that many people there hate you and will kill you if they get the chance. It really does something to your mind to know that many of the people living around you don’t like you and want you to die.

  Si Robertson

  Hate, Drinking, People

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• I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Fighting, Ideas, Trying

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• In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  Views, Law, Jail

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• What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  Party, Thinking, People

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• Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.

  Bob Dylan

  Uncles, War, Insanity

  Song: Legionnaire's Disease

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• My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.

  Clarke Peters

  Jobs, War, Thinking

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• I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.

  Burt Rutan

  Fun, War, Airplane

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• Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.

  Donald Sutherland

  Lying, Ambition, Iraq

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• Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.

  Ho Chi Minh

  War, Struggle, Independent

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• My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

  Robert Vaughn

  War, Speaks Out, Hollywood

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• You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict

  Juan Williams

  War, People, Dying

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of The New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.

  H. R. McMaster

  New York, War, College

  "Trump's brilliant choice of McMaster" by Peter Bergen, www.cnn.com. February 21, 2017.

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• The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

  Richard Holbrooke

  War, United States, Generations

  "The Last Mission" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2009.

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• Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.

  James Donald

  Remember, Claims, Terrible

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• I think that the war on drugs is domestic Vietnam. And didn't we learn from Vietnam that, at a certain point in the war, we should stop and rethink our strategy, ask ``Why are we here, what are we doing, what's succeeded, what's failed?'' And we ought to do that with the domestic Vietnam, which is the war on drugs.

  Kurt Schmoke

  War, Thinking, Drug

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• We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Giving Up, Taken, America

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