for me the hippies during the 60's were saying and giving a message they could be saying stop the war or they could be saying respect me, but they were saying something and we have to her them because sometimes they are much right than us. the hippies also wanted peace and they use some frases that i will like to share with you:
if you want to know were your heart is, look to were your mind goes when it wanders.
it takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
weve lost connection with the natural world, the further away we get from the wild the less we understand
they are much more frases that i could tell you and you could spend hours reading it so i want to tell you that the hippie culture was not only about having long hair and having colorful clothes it was about following your derams, and not wanting more violence so what they did was going out of the normal culture and start sayind no more war, respect each other, all you need is love... it also wase't only about tthe peace symbol it was about having courage to say no, even if the goverment said yes. the hippies think that if you dirin't wanted to hear them talk they will have to shout.
and they are hippies today only they don't have the colorful clothes and the long hair.