Tom Hayden Quotes

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• I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

  Tom Hayden

  Thinking, People, March

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• Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

  Tom Hayden

  Style, Crime, Contagious

  Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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• A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

  Tom Hayden

  Government, People, Majority

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• They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.

  Tom Hayden

  Friendship, Dog, Adventure

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• The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

  Tom Hayden

  Issues, Rights, Too Much

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• I am the Vietcong. We are everywhere! We are all Vietcong.

  Tom Hayden

  Vietcong

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• Communism is one of the options that can improve people's lives.

  Tom Hayden

  People, World, Communism

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• Vietnam is unique of all the countries in the world, I believe, in having the longest continuous struggle against foreign aggression of any country that has retained its national identity.

  Tom Hayden

  Country, Believe, Struggle

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• There's so much benevolence on helping your fellow person. And the morality that helped build our country is based on the values that are found in the Bible. And as we look at problems, maybe we're getting away from those values. And in my little small way, I want to encourage people to get back into those values.

  Tom Hayden

  Country, People, Want

  "Mayor declares 2014 the 'year of the Bible' in Texas city". Fox 4 News Interview, www.foxnews.com. January 02, 2014.

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• We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

  Tom Hayden

  Alternatives, Our Society, Messages

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Then you have [Donald] Trump. So it could be the tightest, most hazardous race in political history and we can't afford to allow Trump to slither through. So that's where I'm at.

  Tom Hayden

  Race, Political, Trump

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a weakening of the martial will, but the syndrome was actually a healthy American reaction to false White House promises of victory, the propping up of corrupt regimes, crony contracting and cover-ups of civilian casualties during the Vietnam War that are echoed today in the news from Baghdad.

  Tom Hayden

  War, White, House

  Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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• Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?

  Tom Hayden

  Journey, Atrocities, Hanoi

  Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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• When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.

  Tom Hayden

  World, Becoming, Students

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.

  Tom Hayden

  Buddhist, New York, Guy

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• All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on gang violence, I was a community organizer in Newark, New Jersey, and when I spoke to the Black Caucus, congressional and state, I realized they were going all the way for Hillary [Clinton] and so was the Latino caucus in Sacramento and I asked myself this question: "Do I really want to cast my vote against these people who have been central to my life and to the soul of the country?" And so I went with them. Period.

  Tom Hayden

  Country, Book, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.

  Tom Hayden

  Home, Past, Passing On

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• The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

  Tom Hayden

  Running, Gang Members, Justice

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• I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

  Tom Hayden

  Mean, Giving, Answers

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• [Donald] Trump is fascism, that's all, so we have to find a way to work it out between Hillary [Clinton] and Bernie [Sanders].

  Tom Hayden

  Way, Clinton, Trump

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

  Tom Hayden

  Distance, Acceptance, Trying

  Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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• Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.

  Tom Hayden

  Beach, Character, Venice

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• Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

  Tom Hayden

  Block, California, Republican

  Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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• He likes to take strolls by himself and believes dog-catchers are friendly innkeepers who'll take care of a meal. He's gullible and has never learned to fight back against a ruthless world.

  Tom Hayden

  Dog, Believe, Fighting

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• It was gonna be a race [2016] that set a foundation for the Left in the future. But given the math, I didn't think he was gonna make it. And so I started to shift to Hillary [Clinton] and to discussions of the platform and discussions of what to do.

  Tom Hayden

  Math, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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