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Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.

— Wavy Gravy

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

— Mark Vonnegut

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.

— Jerry Saltz

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

— Camille Paglia

There is certainly greatness in the '60s generation. They changed our attitudes about race in America, which was long overdue. They didn't just stand up and salute when told to go to war. Women finally began to realize a more equal place in our society.

— Tom Brokaw

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

— Michael Caine

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

— Michael Herr

The '60s was the end of the America that the rest of the world liked.

— Julie Newmar

✗Opposing Perspectives

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

— Paul Kantner

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