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Tom Hayden Biography

Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden (December 11, 1939 – October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author and politician, who was director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in Los Angeles County, California. Hayden was known best for his major role as an anti-war, civil rights, and radical intellectual counterculture activist. He was married to Jane Fonda for thirteen years, and was the father of actor Troy Garity.

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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.

Becoming, Beginning, Social, Students, World

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.

Covering, Everything Happens For A Reason, Eye, Eyes, New York, Proper

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.

Country, Helping, Looks, People, Small

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.

Baseball, Dog, Funny, Herding, Tractors, Twice

The last time I saw Robert Kennedy was in an elevator by accident also, going up, one week before he was shot.

Elevator, Kennedy, Lasts, Saw, Saws, Week

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.

Against, Believe, Country, Foreign, Identity, Struggle

Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

Book, Course, Gang, Gangs, Taught, Written

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

Adventure, Dog, Friendship, Loyal, Motivate

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

Expand, Gang, Gang Members, Justice, Members, Running

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.

Echoed, House, News, Regimes, War, White

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.

Discussions, Math, Race, Set, Think, Thinking

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.

300, Issue, Issues, Rights, Riots, Too Much

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.

Cities, Seat, Six, Think, Thinking, Years

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

Communism, Improve, Lives, People, World

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

Everywhere, Vietcong

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

Block, California, Hanoi, Republican, Republicans, Seating

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.

Angeles, Came, Firsts, Los Angeles, Said, Supportive

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.

Believe, Care, Dog, Fighting, Likes, 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.

Buddhist, Establishment, Guy, New York, Old, York

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.

Although, Home, Nothing, Passing On, Past, Victims

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