Political Activity
Haynie was one of the "Faculty 45"—faculty members arrested during an anti-war sit-in in Hayes Hall in 1970. He was a reform Democratic candidate for the Buffalo Common Council in 1979.
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“Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, sons of the same soil, at intervals of three centuries were, in a political sense, the levers of Archimedes. Each in turn was an embodied idea finding its fulcrum in the interests of man.”
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