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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.

Tom Hayden

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Tom Hayden
Age: 76 †
Born: 1939
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: October 23
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