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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the "American Way of Life" is a fossil of history. What do they care... if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiffassed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frug, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragassing across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word o...f the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around--the music and the ideas.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The line it is drawn The curse it is cast... The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land... And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is rapidly agin'.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it incr...eases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.... It is a place ...where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.... It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »