Tom Hayden: "Saya dibesarkan di rumah orang Irlandia-Amerika di Detroi...
"Saya dibesarkan di rumah orang Irlandia-Amerika di Detroit di mana asimilasi adalah prioritas utama. Harga asimilasi dan kehormatan adalah amnesia. Meskipun kakek-nenek buyut saya adalah korban Kelaparan Besar tahun 1840-an, meskipun saya dinamai Thomas Emmet Hayden IV setelah pengasingan nasionalis Irlandia yang radikal, Thomas Emmet, warisan saya harus dicabut hak warisnya. Orang tua saya tidak tahu apa-apa tentang masa lalu ini, atau tidak ada yang layak diteruskan."

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I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.
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