Search Results for "Tom Hayden"
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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 sake of acceptance and legitimacy.
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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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And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.
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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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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 to fight back against a ruthless world.
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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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I am the Vietcong. We are everywhere! We are all Vietcong.
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A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.
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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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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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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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The last time I saw Robert Kennedy was in an elevator by accident also, going up, one week before he was shot.
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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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I was in the category of people who thought that his Bernie Sanders campaign was worthy, even noble and it would push Hillary Clinton to the left.
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Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.
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Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.
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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 don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.
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Communism is one of the options that can improve people's lives.
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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 and once for attacking a tractor tread.
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Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?
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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.
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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 worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.
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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.