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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Tom Hayden

Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

— Tom Hayden

Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.

— Tom Hayden

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

— Tom Hayden

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

— 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…

— Tom Hayden

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

— 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,…

— Tom Hayden

Vietnam is unique of all the countries in the world, I believe, in having the longest continuous struggle against foreign aggression of…

— Tom Hayden

He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from…

— Tom Hayden

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

— Tom Hayden

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard…

— Tom Hayden

It was gonna be a race [2016] that set a foundation for the Left in the future. But given the math, I…

— Tom Hayden

I was in the category of people who thought that his [Bernie Sanders ]campaign was worthy, even noble and it would push…

— Tom Hayden

If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from…

— Tom Hayden

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

— Tom Hayden

The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what…

— Tom Hayden

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

— Tom Hayden

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

— Tom Hayden

The last time I saw Robert Kennedy was in an elevator by accident also, going up, one week before he was shot.

— Tom Hayden

When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social…

— Tom Hayden

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

— Tom Hayden

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

— Tom Hayden