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

This ideal would become the centerpiece of the student movement of the 1960s a movement that came to be known as the New Left. During 1961 Hayden married Casey Cason a Texas-born civil rights activist who worked for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). That doesn’t mean that there can’t be some attempts at remedies but there should never be used as an excuse to stay.

Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden (born December 11 1939) is an American social and political activist author and politician who is director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in Culver City California. Known best for his major role as an anti-war civil rights and radical activist Hayden is the former husband of actress Jane Fonda and the father of their son actor Troy Garity.