At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.
Arlo Guthrie
Related At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the comm... BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER While growing up, on the news every night was the war in Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement. We w... EUGENE DIAL And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it? ... No Face... a pe... DEYTH BANGER In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protes... GEORGE CLOONEY Of course there are depressing periods when nothing appears to be happening. But whenever anything w... ALFRED HERSHEY A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil ... STEVEN VAN ZANDT The reason we're called project is because there's always something happening. There's always moveme... DAVE MENEER It's a cliche to say she was the mother of the civil rights movement, but she was. JULIAN BOND The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to ... CHRISTINA ENGELA It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they... ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening ... KENNETH TYNAN We wanted to do something that would be a movement toward preventing what happened to Gary from happ... RON ERSKINE If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it. BOB LIVINGSTON I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing. ALLAN DARE PEARCE There's movement. It's very physical. There is live music happening onstage. I think of this as tota... ANTON JUAN The Voting Rights Act was really the whole core of the civil rights movement. It made a tremendous i... CHARLES MATHIAS The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and... BELL HOOKS In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, ... BOB EDWARDS When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement. BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the m... DAVID TALBOT [It] was the worst thing happening at the worst time in the worst environment. JOHN EBERLE What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement. DAVID PRICE What's happening today is that there is some wavering ... but one should not conclude that our movem... ANNA MELUN Chuck was bohemian at heart. He loved what was happening there. He became a part of the family. ANGELICA DIAZ I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Everything that was happening that night was for the amusement of the guards. CHUCK NEILL As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a ... JAMES T. WALSH I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave sc... BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON When we wrote the last record, the whole anti-globalization movement was happening. There was protes... DENNIS LYXZEN The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood. DAVID GRANN The quarterback was good. He was in command of everything that was happening out there. He was aware... CARL SMITH It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about... ADAM COHEN I was frozen. There was nothing else happening for a moment there. ERIC ZASTOUPIL In the time we made 'To the 5 Boroughs,' there was a political seriousness because of what w... MIKE D It really didn't occur to me that I was having the same thing happening. DYANNE BOSTAIN I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Brit... ROBERT MACNEIL He had to leave early - he said there was something happening at the Labor Council. ARTHUR CHELIOTES It was one of the main gripes of the early civil rights movement and the NAACP, ... It was the major... BRUCE TYLER It was some type of a mechanical failure. There was nothing unusual happening. BRUCE SHIPLEY It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establi... ARCHIE SHEPP Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with... ANN MACBETH When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War... MICHAEL MOORE The happening that happened was that I met this girl ... MARKUS ZUSAK What we found was that people had documented the civil rights movement basically through newspaper c... KAREN GLYNN I was surprised to see how much the mainstream environmental movement hates the ELF. MARSHALL CURRY I didn't know what was happening. It was crazy. ANDRE ALLEN Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagi... JAMES FARMER Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think. JEANE KIRKPATRICK There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liber... STOKELY CARMICHAEL Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his ... ANGELA DAVIS Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area t... LOUIS L'AMOUR All the time it was happening I was just as calm as could be, but afterwards I was shaking a little ... JACK MOORE PlayStation consolidated the second wave of gaming. There was a slack period before it came when not... JEFF MINTER During World War II, hundreds of thousands of people actually - and among them many African-American... MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas... CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN One day, this Establishment will fall. It will not do so on its own terms or of its own accord, but ... OWEN JONES The seduction was slow, each request only went a bit further than the last and the horror of what wa... JUSTIN BERRY All three of us just had our eye on what was happening around us, we were very observant to what peo... LAMONT DOZIER We didn't really know what was happening, JOHN CHAMBERS Historically, hunters have been a big part of the environmental movement, while you cant say the sam... PAUL MORIARTY I think a lot of people were taken aback last summer that so much construction was happening at the ... CAMI GRICHEL The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the '6... ROBERT KLEIN The hippy movement was a failure. JOE STRUMMER My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordin... YAYA DACOSTA One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think glob... MIKE LOVE There's a sort of movement that says that when classics are bypassed, they can become cool again. Th... RICHARD BRANDES Mine was an apparent forward movement whereas Burley's was a continuous serpentine movement. ARCHIE MOORE Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA The Selection was no longer something that was simply happening to me, but something I was actively ... KIERA CASS This is probably the most profound civil rights movement of our generation, without a doubt. JACKIE SPEIER In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It wa... BILL DIXON Tell me this isn't happening," she murmured. "I was about to ask you the same thing," Aria said. SARA SHEPARD My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the femin... JUSTIN SANE The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbo... DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-ri... EMMA STONE Suddenly I grasped what was happening- they were all trying to save me. I never thought I was ... ALBERT BORRIS We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a... PADDY ASHDOWN Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without i... JAMES L. FARMER, JR. My brother and my father both got laid off around the same that I was starting to do this movie '... MICHAEL PENA There was cap room prior to this happening, it had absolutely nothing to do with the cap. LOU LAMORIELLO I began to think that there was something awesome about my timing. How was it that, at the exact mom... MARK EPSTEIN I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War w... RADHANATH SWAMI I didn't see what happened in the stands, I was watching what was happening on the court. It was a h... BILL SWAN This is probably the most profound civil rights movement of our generation, without q doubt. JACKIE SPEIER But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening... SARAH DESSEN Change must come before it's too late, the nature destroyed forever we shall not find. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The Chicano movement was a direct result of the Black civil rights movement, and all of us were insp... ALFREDO GUTIERREZ It would not be happening if the race was close or if [Democratic candidate Fernando] Ferrer was win... GEORGE ARZT Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision. RAINBOW ROWELL There was a certain naturalness that was happening in the '60s and '70s that felt more like a happen... HERB ALPERT A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to... TODD MCFARLANE Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look... JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS The good news is there was movement on both sides. BOB WOOD There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's ... KIM EDWARDS It was too emotionally bizarre at the time. Making plans before I knew what was happening meant we w... JAMES VANDERBERG I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hu... C. L. R. JAMES Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future. CRAIG GROESCHEL She was very accomplished and this was before the feminist movement. CECILIA MRUK
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