“Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country-it had all been done in our name. . . . The French city . . . had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the heroin phase.” MenChildrenWarCountryDoneYoungNamesCitiesStageDrugAddictionCorruptionYoung ManDivisionPhasesHumiliationProstitutionVietnam WarHeroinOpiumMutilationSaigon Author:James Fenton
“America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them help-because the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won.” PeopleWorldGivingHeartMadeWarHelpingGovernmentAmericaHurtHonorCommunistVietnamVietnam WarPoorestVietnameseReparations Author:Martha Gellhorn
“I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.” WarVictoryDefeatVietnam WarVietnamese Book:Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist Source: Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist
“The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.” WarViolenceDirectResponseVietnam WarAtrocitiesCambodia Author:Noam Chomsky
“Barron and Paul...rely on 'specialists' at the State and Defense Departments...Elsewhere in the media, similiar figures are bandied about, with equal credibility.” WarStatesMediaFiguresEqualDefenseRelyDepartmentElsewhereCredibilityVietnam WarSpecialists Author:Noam Chomsky
“You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department intelligence.” WarStatesMightSourceRelyDepartmentRecallsVietnam WarCommentatorsKnowledgeable Author:Noam Chomsky
“As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.” ArtFormGrewSimplicityI RealizedGenuineAdornmentSimplicity In Art Author:Albrecht Durer
“Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?” PeopleWarCountryFightingSlaveVietnam WarDescendants Author:Muhammad Ali
“If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk by putting American boys in, I believe that the executive branch of the government has to take the politically unpopular position of facing up to it and doing it, and I personally would support such a decision.” IfsBelieveWarGovernmentOrderI BelieveDecisionBoysSupportRiskPositionChinaBranchesExecutivesCommunistExpansionAsiaVietnam WarExecutive Branch Author:Richard M. Nixon