--- title: "1 Assimilation Quotes By Tom Hayden" description: "1 Assimilation quotes by Tom Hayden. Plus more from Tom Hayden and more Assimilation sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad9/tom-hayden-17038_amnesia_i-was-raised-in-an-irish-american-home-i_3005160.jpg" --- > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-hayden/i-was-raised-in-an-irish-american-home-in-detroit-where-assimilation/) [Tom Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-hayden/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad9/tom-hayden-17038_amnesia_i-was-raised-in-an-irish-american-home-i_3005160.jpg) ## Other authors on Assimilation - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-norbert-elias-71917.jpg) Norbert Elias 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/assimilation/norbert-elias/) ## More by Tom Hayden > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-hayden/i-m-not-ready-to-give-you-a-clear-answer-on-whether-electoral/) [Tom Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-hayden/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-hayden/all-my-life-i-ve-been-involved-with-racial-politics-i-was-a-freedom/) [Tom Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-hayden/) > [The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-hayden/the-issue-of-civil-rights-was-too-much-for-the-establishment-to/) [Tom Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-hayden/) > [Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-hayden/ive-written-a-book-on-gangs-taught-a-course-on-gangs-at-occidental/) [Tom Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-hayden/) > [Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-hayden/fonda-was-neither-wrong-nor-unconscionable-in-what-she-said-and-did/) [Tom Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-hayden/) > [The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-hayden/the-peace-and-justice-movement-has-to-expand-and-not-run-away-from/) [Tom Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-hayden/) > [Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-hayden/our-crime-was-that-we-were-beginning-to-live-a-new-and-contagious/) [Tom Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-hayden/) > [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-hayden/then-you-have-donald-trump-so-it-could-be-the-tightest-most-hazardous/) [Tom Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-hayden/) > [A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-hayden/a-silent-majority-and-government-by-the-people-is-incompatible/) [Tom Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-hayden/) > [ We're looking at a quandary here where Bernie's \[Sanders\] the winner on a moral and even a political basis. He's made history, and she's… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-hayden/we-re-looking-at-a-quandary-here-where-bernie-s-sanders-the-winner-on/) [Tom Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-hayden/) > [Vietnam is unique of all the countries in the world, I believe, in having the longest continuous struggle against foreign aggression of any country…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-hayden/vietnam-is-unique-of-all-the-countries-in-the-world-i-believe-in/) [Tom Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-hayden/) > [He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-hayden/he-led-quite-a-great-life-he-was-an-old-testament-figure-railing/) [Tom Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-hayden/) > [Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-hayden/already-this-war-on-gangs-in-california-is-taking-money-from/) [Tom Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-hayden/) > [Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-hayden/most-centrist-democrats-try-to-distance-themselves-from-controversies/) [Tom Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-hayden/) > [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-hayden/it-was-gonna-be-a-race-2016-that-set-a-foundation-for-the-left-in-the/) [Tom Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-hayden/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/assimilation/tom-hayden/#itemlist", "name": "1 Assimilation Quotes By Tom Hayden", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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. 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