“We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit. [...] We seek the establishment of a democracy of individual participation.”
The Port Huron Statement
A political manifesto written by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), primarily authored by Tom Hayden. It critiqued American society for its complacency, militarism, and racial inequality, while advocating for participatory democracy, civil rights, and an end to the Cold War. The document became a foundational text for the New Left movement of the 1960s and influenced student activism throughout the decade.