Yochai Benkler Quotes

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.

I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer.

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.

'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.

Disruption of the New Left

Hacktivism: The merger of hacking and political activism can wreak enormous havoc.

Coming of age in the 1960s, I heard the word 'fascist' all the time. College presidents were fascists; Vietnam War supporters were fascists. Policemen who tangled with protesters were fascists - on and on.

I remember the youth movement in 1968. It started on American university campuses as a protest against the Vietnam war, then came to Paris, Frankfurt and Berlin. Within a year, you had an uprising of youth against their elders.

In the '60s and '70s, a protest song was a genre in music.

This week a group of activists, known as Anonymous, hacked the Twitter account of the KKK. The KKK is furious. They said Anonymous is just a bunch of cowards who don't have the courage to show their faces.

My parents were activists and my mother was hugely involved with the anti-Vietnam War protests.

Most of my stuff was sort of of-the-time. 'The Crazies' was, basically, we were angry about Vietnam, and it had a reason for being.

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

My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.

That punk approach of 'We don't wanna get big' is really a bourgeois thing. It's not a tactic of people that actually have been successful at changing things.

I remember being in Washington for high school when the city was on fire and those were troubling times, the Vietnam War, the protests.

The protest songs of the 1960s and 70s managed to blend political and societal views with music from the heart.

We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.

I think the '60s were a time where they were singing about what was going on around them.

Til I was about eight or nine, I had no awareness he was anybody special. Since all our friends were in the movement, I thought what Daddy did was natural. Everybody went to jail, right? Then, one day some kids at school called my daddy a jailbird, and it upset me. That was the beginning of my awareness.

I was 14 when the Democratic convention in my hometown of Chicago erupted into violence. It was a tough year.