Make love, Not War - wikipedia Make love, Not War For the book, see Make Love, Not War : The Sexual Revolution : An Unfettered History. For the Cosmic Nomads album, see Make Love Not War ( album ). 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. The `` make love '' part of the slogan often referred to the practice of free love that was growing among the American youth who denounced marriage as a tool for those who supported war and favored the traditional capitalist culture. The phrase 's origins are unclear ; Gershon Legman claimed to be the inventor of the phrase, so did American singer Rod McKuen, and some credit artist, social activist, folk figure, and sometime United States Presidential candidate under the Nudist Party on the Hippie ' Love Ticket ' Louis Abolafia. Radical activists Penelope and Franklin Rosemont and Tor Faegre helped to popularize the phrase by printing thousands of `` Make Love, Not War '' buttons at the Solidarity Bookshop in Chicago, Illinois and distributing them at the Mother 's Day Peace March in 1965. They were the first to print the slogan. In April 1965, at a Vietnam demonstration in Eugene, Oregon, Diane Newell Meyer, then a senior at the University of Oregon, pinned a handwritten note on her sweater reading `` Let 's make love, not war '', thus marking the beginning of the popularity of this phrase. A picture of Meyer wearing the slogan was printed in the Eugene Register - Guard and then a related article turned up in the New York Times on May 9, 1965. When the slogan was used in California in 1967, then Governor Ronald Reagan joked to protesters `` Those guys ( the protesters ) look like they ca n't make either of both ''. In popular culture This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( June 2012 ) The slogan was featured in two 1973 songs : John Lennon 's `` Mind Games '' and Bob Marley 's 1973 song `` No More Trouble. '' It was the inspiration for a book by David Allyn : Make Love, Not War : The Sexual Revolution : An Unfettered History. In the movie Field of Dreams, fictional character Terence Mann is credited with coining the phrase. The character of ' Pop ', in the futuristic Queen musical play We Will Rock You, shouts `` Make love, not war ! '' as he is brainwashed at the start of the show, which leads into the stage performance of ' Radio Ga Ga '. On the DEC PDP - 10, typing the command `` make love '' would result in the response `` not war ? '' This action was copied on some older versions of UNIX. Some recent operating systems have brought the easter egg back, such as FreeBSD 7.0 ; as of / src / usr. bin / make / job. c version 1.126. 2.1 if you type `` make love, '' the answer you will get is `` Not war. '' References Jump up ^ Fattig, Paul. `` Make Love, Not War ! coined in Ashland ''. Medford Mail Tribune. Archived from the original on February 26, 2014. Retrieved August 15, 2010. Jump up ^ Levitas, Mitchel ( May 9, 1965 ). `` Article 9 -- No Title ; Vietnam Comes to Oregon U. Vietnam Comes to Oregon U. ''. New York Times. Jump up ^ Emma Goldman : People & Events : Free Love PBS.org, Accessed February 3, 2014 Jump up ^ Dudar, H., `` Love and death ( and schmutz ) : G. Legman 's second thoughts, '' Village Voice, May 1, 1984, pp. 41 - 43. Jump up ^ Scott, Janny : `` Gershon Legman, Anthologist of Erotic Humor, Is Dead at 81 '', The New York Times, March 14, 1999. URL last accessed 2014 - 05 - 01. Jump up ^ McKuen, R. : Flight Plan March 14, 2005. URL last accessed 2014 - 05 - 01. Jump up ^ Rosemont, Penelope. Dreams and Everyday Life : A Sixties Notebook. Chicago : Charles H. Kerr, 2008 : 40 - 41. Jump up ^ D'Souza, Dinesh : Ronald Reagan : How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader, p. 71, Simon and Schuster 1999, ISBN 0684848236. 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Question: who came up with the phrase make love not war
Answer: The phrase's origins are unclear