John Dunne Quotes

Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life - into music, into the pulpits, in churches of our country. It spilled over into the city streets, police forces. And even if you were born late in the generation, Vietnam was still part of your childhood.

It's usually human drama that carries with it issues of race or class that attracts me. That was certainly the case with 'No Crossover.'

The left has lost the common touch.

I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about political choices, ideology, Marxism, revolution, 'the system' and so on.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War.

Vietnam in America was truly a second Civil War.

The complex origins of class cleavage in politics are not easily unraveled

When America became stigmatized in the '60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else.

The path chosen by Barack Obama and the Democrat Party is the road to 'small-c- communism' - and the important thing to understand is that they are quite happy with that choice.

The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962.

Majored in staying out of Vietnam.

If all we've got is the dirt poor and the filthy rich, the dirt poor would eat the filthy rich.

The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which will be waged in the big tent we call the world.

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.