Tom Hayden Quotes

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• A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.
• The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The…
• Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.
• 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…
• 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…
• His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive…
• They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.
• Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?
• 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…
• Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.
• Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.
• 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…
• Communism is one of the options that can improve people's lives.
• 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…
• 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…
• I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.
• The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.
• If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002,…
• Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.
• Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.

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