I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A. — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Hayden Copy Share
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… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam. — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members. — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization. — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
Vietnam is unique of all the countries in the world, I believe, in having the longest continuous struggle against foreign aggression of any country… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
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