Discussion: Tom Hayden, Famed 1960s Anti-War Activist And Progressive Icon, Dies At 76

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Tom Hayden, Famed 1960s Anti-War Activist And Progressive Icon, Dies At 76 Tom Hayden, Famed 1960s Anti-War Activist And Progressive Icon, Dies At 76 Back to article
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America today needs Tom Haydenā€™s by the hundreds of thousands. Most people who did not know him will never realize how much America has lost with the passing of the original.

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A real loss and one that makes me feel particularly old today :cry:

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I guess I am officially ā€˜oldā€™. Rest in peace, Tom.

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Tom Hayden was one of those smart white middle class young Americans who demonstrated for me what Bobby Kennedy was talking about - the burden and obligation to step forward and build a better more equal America. He had a lot of fight in him, and a big heart.

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I canā€™t emphasize enough how much influence the Port Huron Statement had on an entire generation of activists.
Tom Hayden, we will miss you. You were a true leader.

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ā€œI Used to Support Bernie, but Then I Changed My Mindā€ by Tom Hayden - April 12, 2016

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I read the Port Huron statement in high school, joined SDS in 1965. Admired Tom my entire life, and am so unbearably sad he has gone.

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R.I.P Tom.

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Yep!!

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That was a life, better led than most.

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I saw a couple of Bernie or Busters on FB today talking about what a ā€œselloutā€ Hayden was for writing that. Never in my life have I wanted to reach through a computer screen more and backhand the idiots who wrote it.

Iā€™d bet my retirement savings none of them had a clue what Hayden actually accomplished as an activist, and know only that article. He was the real deal and they should genuflect in admiration.

The good ones always go too soon.

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I really, really, despise 2016.

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Hayden was basically saying weā€™re ā€œStronger Together.ā€ I donā€™t understand people who want to go to war with their ideological allies.

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The Port Huron Statement: http://www.h-net.org/~hst306/documents/huron.html

The kids should read it, if they havenā€™t already.

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Itā€™s futility in its purest form. Iā€™ll give even the Senator himself for recognizing that. Canā€™t change the game if you refuse to figure out how to play the game, and the biggest shifts will come when you work together towards a common solution.

Hayden knew this and worked both sides of that coin his whole life. I have deep respect for people like that who understood what it meant to use your privilege to create a better world for everyone, not just the elite.

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