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Return to normalcy" – 1920 U.S. presidential campaign theme of Warren G. Harding, referring to returning to normal times following World War I. "America First" – 1920 US presidential campaign theme of Warren G. Harding, tapping into isolationist and anti-immigrant sentiment after World War I. [9] "Peace. Progress. Prosperity." – James M. Cox
The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy - said by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Omar Bradley to the U.S. Senate in opposition to extending the Korean War into China. Contributed to President Harry S. Truman's dismissal of the commander of U.N. forces Douglas MacArthur.
Better dead than Red – anti-Communist slogan; Black is beautiful – political slogan of a cultural movement that began in the 1960s by African Americans; Black Lives Matter – decentralized social movement that began in 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African American teen Trayvon Martin; popularized in the United States following 2014 protests in ...
People protesting against the Iraq War, 2008 "Make love, not war" is an anti-war slogan commonly associated with the American counterculture of the 1960s.It was used primarily by those who were opposed to the Vietnam War, but has been invoked in other anti-war contexts since, around the world.
A demonstrator offers a flower to military police at an anti-Vietnam War protest at The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, 21 October 1967. Flower power was a slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and nonviolence. [1] It is rooted in the opposition movement to the Vietnam War. [2]
I have been a Democrat all my life. Growing up, the Democrats were the anti-war party — the party of peace. I marched in the 1960s with Gene McCarthy, Ben Spock, Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, Martin ...
The slogans became widespread during the Cold War, first gaining currency in the United States during the late 1950s, amid debates about anti-communism and nuclear disarmament. The first phrase, "better red than dead", is often credited to British philosopher Bertrand Russell , but in his 1961 Has Man a Future? he attributes it to "West German ...
"I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" helped solidify the anti-war movement enough to make it politically relevant on the national stage. [1] The song was in the top 20 charts from January to July 1915 and reached number 1 in March and April. [ 8 ]