Hippy Culture; at least they were trying to things, to change some things!
"We are here to make a better world. No amount of rationalization or blaming can preempt the moment of choice each of us brings to our situation here on this planet. The lesson of the '60s is that people who cared enough to do right could change history. We didn't end racism but we ended legal segregation. We ended the idea that you could send half-a-million soldiers around the world to fight a war that people do not support. We ended the idea that women are second-class citizens. We made the environment an issue that couldn't be avoided. The big battles that we won cannot be reversed. We were young, self-righteous, reckless, hypocritical, brave, silly, headstrong and scared half to death.
And we were right."
-Abbie Hoffman
"Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines, and in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them."
-Abbie Hoffman
"It's a fool who plays it cool by making this world a little colder. "
-Beatles
Source: Hey Jude
"How many times must the cannonballs fly, before they're forever banned? ...How many deaths will it takes till he knows that too many people have died?"
-Bob Dylan
"Mother, should I trust the government?"
-Pink Floyd
"Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War."
-Timothy Leary
Take these my friends and yell them in the streets! The world is moving and it isn't in a safe direction. Stop society from slitting our wrists!

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