Tom Hayden Quotes

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.

Communism is one of the options that can improve people’s lives.

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

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

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.

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

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is’ that there is no viable alternative to the present.

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

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.

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.

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.

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.