Tom Hayden Quotes

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

By 1973, John Kerry had already accused American soldiers of committing war crimes in Vietnam, thrown someone else's medals to the ground in an anti-war demonstration, and married his first heiress.

Sports and politics don't mix.

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting.

I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.

They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.

If I wasn't President, I'd be out on the streets myself and would probably take a swing at any Khomeini demonstrator I could get my hands on.

Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.

If you stand for peace in the USA, you're lucky to be alive.

Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war.

any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

I'm always happy when I'm protesting.

My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social reform I had been for "the best possible." But now I was pushed far toward the left on the subject of the war and I became gradually convinced that in order to make the position of the pacifist clear it was perhaps necessary that at least a small number of us should be forced into an unequivocal position.

Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.

We need to also act out, and anything that [Donald] Trump does, anything he's trying to do that we don't agree with or anything this country is doing in general that we don't agree with, we need to protest, we need to make our voices heard. And that has to go beyond Twitter - for me as well.

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