Tom Hayden Quotes

#1. The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

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#2. I am myself the matter of my book.

Michel De Montaigne

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

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#4. Wisdom comes when we acknowledge what we can never know.

Jacqueline Winspear

#5. It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this - this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I've been moving towards it my whole life.

Aron Ralston

#6. Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?

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#7. I am the Vietcong. We are everywhere! We are all Vietcong.

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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, and she's the winner on the mathematical basis.

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

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

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#12. 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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#13. 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.

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

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

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#16. 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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#17. [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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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.

Denise Duhamel

#21. 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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#22. If you want to send a message, try Western Union.

Frank Capra

#23. May your hands be an extension of your heart and may you do the work of love with them.

Aja Monet

#24. 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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#25. Pick your head up nothing lasts forever, sing it for the people like us, the people like us!

Kelly Clarkson

#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

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

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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000.

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#34. Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#35. A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

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#36. The United States is imposing sanctions on individuals and companies working to advance Iran's ballistic missile program, and we are going to remain vigilant about it. We're not going to waver in the defense of our security or that of our allies and partners.

Barack Obama

#37. Communism is one of the options that can improve people's lives.

Tom Hayden