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… — 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… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
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
Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout. — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
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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.” quote by Tom Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/82f/tom-hayden-17038_clinton_it-was-gonna-be-a-race-2016-that-set-a-f_1070015.jpg)