Tom Hayden

“The real dividing line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives... It's between the establishment and the grassroots.”

“If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.”

“The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the older peace groups have gone slack but the protests against the Iraq war have been gigantic.”

“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.”

“Find a cause that's larger than yourself and then give your life to it.”

“We seek the establishment of a democracy of individual participation.”

“I think the forms of civil disobedience have to be appropriate to the objective. You can't just be a provocateur and do anything you want. You have to be strategic in your actions.”

“Power is the ability to not have to please.”

“Never before has a generation been so massively exposed to the realities of the world and so profoundly alienated from its dominant values.”

“My life is a story about the blurring of borders.”

“We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.”