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Mitchell, Joni. "Big Yellow Taxi." Ladies of the Canyon. Reprise Records, 1970.

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

Crazy Horse

Quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown

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Witko, Tashunka. Quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, written by Dee Brown. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970, ch. 12.

Ooh, child, things are gonna get easier
Ooh child, things'll get brighter.

The Five Stairsteps

Ooh Child (song)

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Vincent, Stan. "O-o-h Child." Performed by Five Stairsteps. Stairsteps. Buddah Records, 1970.

What a long, strange trip it's been.

The Grateful Dead

Truckin'

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Hunter, Robert. "Truckin'." Performed by The Grateful Dead. American Beauty. Warner Records, 1970.

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Wolfe, Tom. "Radical Chic." Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. Originally an essay called "These Radical Chic Evenings." New York Magazine, June 1970.

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Arendt, Hanna. Quoted in A Certain World: A Commonplace Book, written by W. H. Auden. Viking Press, 1970.

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Arendt, Hannah. "Civil Disobedience." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972. Originally published as "Reflections on Civil Disobedience" by The New Yorker, 12 Sept. 1970.

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Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Weatherhill, 1970. Originally a talk given at his Zen center in c. 1969, Los Altos, CA, USA.

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Krishnamurti, Jiddu. Think on These Things. Harper & Row, 1964, ch. 20.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Walt Kelly

The cartoon-strip character, Pogo the opossum, looking at litter under a tree. Used as an Earth Day poster in 1971.

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Kelly, Walt. "We Have Met the Enemy…" Pogo. 22 Apr. 1970. Poster.

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Magritte, Rene. Quoted in Magritte by Suzy Grablik. New York Graphic Society, 1970.

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.

Richard Bach

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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Bach, Richard. Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The Macmillan Company, 1970, pt. 3.

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Agnew, Spiro. Speech in Illionis. Republican meeting. 10 Sept. 1970, Springfield, IL, USA.

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Toffler, Alvin. Future Shock. Random House, 1970, introduction.

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Whalen, Philip. Scenes of Life at the Capital. Maya Quartos, 1970.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

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Eban, Abba. Speech in London. 16 Dec. 1970, London, England, UK.

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Trumbo, Dalton. Speech accepting an award from the Writers' Guild. 13 Mar. 1970, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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Trumbo, Dalton. Quoted in Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical, written by Larry Ceplair and Christopher Trumbo. University Press of Kentucky, 2015, ch. 22.

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Meir, Golda. Stated after Levi Eshkol delivered a radio address to his nation. c. 1967.

A man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest.

Simon & Garfunkel

The Boxer

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Simon, Paul. "Bridge Over Troubled Water." Performed by Simon & Garfunkel. Bridge Over Troubled Water, Columbia Records, 1970.

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Dalí, Salvador. Dalí by Dalí. Harry N. Abrams, 1970.