"The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost t…"

"I sought a different path than that of my parents. I totally rejected meditation and all the spiritual shit they buil…"

"When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. It was …"

"Men reached the moon in July 1969, and Woodstock began three weeks later. With the benefit of hindsight, we can see t…"

"Berkeley political activists are going to join San Francisco’s hippies in a love feast that will, hopefully, wipe out…"

"There was an awakening going on, and we knew it was happening across the country, and we knew there were pockets of p…"

"Retrospectively, I feel quite certain that the Be-In also marked the beginning of nationwide attention."

"A February article in Newsweek called what was happening “a psychedelic picnic.” As more people began to move to the …"

"[Summer of Love was] the defining moment of the hippie movement."

"My great worry is the problem of poverty … Instead of prisons, I would have schools, art and vocational academies, fr…"