In 1962, an undergraduate at the University of Michigan named Tom Hayden drafted a document that would launch a decade of student protest and mass action for a more democratic society.
Five decades later, we assess its impact and enduring legacy.
Tom Hayden
The Port Huron Statement’s core message is timeless but not dogmatic: we all need participatory democracy.
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Kim Phillips-Fein
The economic inequalities of our own day were anticipated even at the height of postwar affluence.
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Bill Ayers
The ’60s remain a prelude to the necessary fundamental changes to come.
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Angus Johnston
Advances in student power have shaped the course of American higher education and the nation.
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Eric Mann
Like the signatories of the Port Huron Statement, the Occupiers need to expand beyond the narrower interests of their original members.
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Kirkpatrick Sale
The Statement was nothing less than a proto-ideology for a New Left.
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Danielle Allen
We cannot be free without being equal.
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Jennifer Hochschild
On the left we see a vacuum where traditional class-oriented populism used to be.
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Trevor Stutz
Only moral clarity will transform alienation and apathy into action.
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Bernardine Dohrn
The Statement was a clarion call for people to take control of key social institutions and of their own lives.
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