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Tom Hayden

"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 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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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."

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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."

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"Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam."
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"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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"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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"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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"Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi."
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