Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen. Tom Hayden More Quotes by Tom Hayden More Quotes From Tom Hayden They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal. Tom Hayden dogadventurefriendship Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization. Tom Hayden contagiouscrimestyle I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission. Tom Hayden marchpeoplethinking A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible. Tom Hayden majoritygovernmentpeople I am the Vietcong. We are everywhere! We are all Vietcong. Tom Hayden vietcong 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 to slither through. So that's where I'm at. Tom Hayden trumppoliticalrace We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present. Tom Hayden alternativesour-societymessages 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 the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970. Tom Hayden issuestoo-muchrights 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 martial will, but the syndrome was actually a healthy American reaction to false White House promises of victory, the propping up of corrupt regimes, crony contracting and cover-ups of civilian casualties during the Vietnam War that are echoed today in the news from Baghdad. Tom Hayden whitehousewar 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 in the Bible. And as we look at problems, maybe we're getting away from those values. And in my little small way, I want to encourage people to get back into those values. Tom Hayden wantcountrypeople When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world. Tom Hayden becomingstudentsworld Communism is one of the options that can improve people's lives. Tom Hayden communismpeopleworld Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable? Tom Hayden hanoiatrocitiesjourney Vietnam is unique of all the countries in the world, I believe, in having the longest continuous struggle against foreign aggression of any country that has retained its national identity. Tom Hayden strugglebelievecountry 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 the Latino caucus in Sacramento and I asked myself this question: "Do I really want to cast my vote against these people who have been central to my life and to the soul of the country?" And so I went with them. Period. Tom Hayden countrybookpeople The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members. Tom Hayden gang-membersjusticerunning He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician. Tom Hayden buddhistguynew-york 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 I did ever mattered. Tom Hayden answersgivingmean [Donald] Trump is fascism, that's all, so we have to find a way to work it out between Hillary [Clinton] and Bernie [Sanders]. Tom Hayden trumpclintonway 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. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on. Tom Hayden passing-onhomepast
