Tom Hayden

veteran political activist

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Former State Senator and leader of the 1960's peace, justice and environmental movements, including Students for a Democratic Society; Visiting Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College in Los Angeles, California and author of The Port Huron Statement, Street Wars and The Zapatista Reader

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"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not." That George Bernard Shaw quote has become identified with  Robert F.

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