Tom Hayden Quotes
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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.
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Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.
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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.
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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.
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We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.
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Communism is one of the options that can improve people's lives.
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I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.
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What I said was that I was at first supportive of Bernie Sanders when he came to Los Angeles for his first rally, I was there, I was supportive.
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Donald Trump is fascism, that's all, so we have to find a way to work it out between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
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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.
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Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.