San Francisco Photos:
In 1966, I came to San Francisco fresh off the farm from Hawaii. The importance of this is that this naïve guy was mesmerized by the big city life and photographed what he saw.

Peace March Photos:
In March of 1967, I photographed the San Francisco Peace March that originated on Market Street and ended at the Kezar Stadium next to Golden Gate Park.

Since 1970, most of these pictures were stored and unseen. Finally, in retirement, I edited and posted them as a visual “monument” in acknowledgement that these people once lived.

Vietnam War Peace March in San Francisco April 15, 1967

Vietnam War Peace March in San Francisco April 15, 1967

Vietnam War Peace March in San Francisco April 15, 1967

“In war, truth is the first casualty.”Aeschylus

“Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.” Ron Paul

Vietnam War Peace March in San Francisco April 15, 1967

“War is the business of barbarians.”Napoleon Bonaparte

“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”Thomas Jefferson

“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.”James Madison

“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”Groucho Marx

“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”James Madison

“Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.”James Madison

“I didn’t like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn’t like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid – as art.”Robert Barry

“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.”James Madison

“Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”Winston Churchill

“A tyrant… is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”Plato

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley.”Bobby Seale

“So, I’ve never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don’t want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.”Diane Wakoski

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”Mahatma Gandhi

“War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.”Napoleon Hill

“War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.”Benjamin Disraeli

“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”Frederick Douglass

“The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.”Ambrose Bierce

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”Albert Einstein

“How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”John F. Kerry

“Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. A few stirred-up women brought about women’s voting. The Populist movement, the Progressive movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women’s movement – the examples go on and on of ‘little people’ getting together and telling the truth about their lives. They made our government act.”Unita Blackwell

“Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s, I had something that the current generation doesn’t have. And that is a sense of efficacy.”Paul Solman

“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.”Bertrand Russell

“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”Jimmy Carter

“In the ’60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?”Yoko Ono

“The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.”Martin Luther King, Jr.

“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”George Orwell

“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.”Ronald Reagan

“Peace is not absence of conflict; it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”Ronald Reagan

“In all history there is no war, which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.”Leo Tolstoy

“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.”Francois Fenelon

“Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases… found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure ran a strong second.”Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

“What is more immoral than war?”Marquis de Sade

Vietnam War Peace March in San Francisco April 15, 1967

“Peace is not absence of conflict. It is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”Ronald Reagan

“Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”Friedrich August von Hayek

“I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”George McGovern

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, and its stupidity.”Dwight D. Eisenhower

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”Howard Zinn

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”James Madison

“One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.”Agatha Christie

“I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.”H. L. Mencken

“Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.”Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Peace is not absence of conflict. It is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”Ronald Reagan