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The 60s6 quotes
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1965If you remember the 60's, you really weren't there. — Charles Fleischer · 1982We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier—the frontier of the 1960's—a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils—a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats...the New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. — John F. Kennedy · 1960The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. — Hannah Arendt · 1970There is a Chinese curse which says "May he live in interesting times." Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most creative of any time in the history of mankind. — Robert F. Kennedy · 1966Out on the street I couldn't tell the Vietnam veterans from the rock and roll veterans. The Sixties had made so many casualties, its war and its music had run power off the same circuit for so long they didn't even have to fuse. — Michael Herr · 1977Change1 quote
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1965Old vs. young1 quote
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1965Rebellion1 quote
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. — Hannah Arendt · 1970Social change1 quote
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. — Hannah Arendt · 1970Vietnam War1 quote
Out on the street I couldn't tell the Vietnam veterans from the rock and roll veterans. The Sixties had made so many casualties, its war and its music had run power off the same circuit for so long they didn't even have to fuse. — Michael Herr · 1977