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.

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

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

I've written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The violence of the left is minor. Our total violence of the last 5 years has not reached the level of a single B-52 raid in Vietnam.

Insurance policies from the slavery era have been discovered in the archives of several insurance companies, documenting insurance coverage for slaveholders for damage to or death of their slaves, issued by a predecessor insurance firm. These documents provide the first evidence of ill-gotten profits from slavery, which profits in part capitalized insurers whose successors remain in existence today.

L.a. 's air pollution has turned an environmental issue into everybody's issue.

We are at a point where democracy—the idea and practice of people controlling their lives—is a revolutionary issue in the United States.

When citizens have no political way to deal with revolution, they become counter-revolutionary.

By our own improvements we seem to have weakened the case for further change.

The economy itself is of such social importance that its major resources and means of production should be open to democratic participation and subject to democratic social regulation.

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

A policy ought to start with some principle.

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.

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.

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.