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Bernardine Dohrn

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
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Big Events Movement Personalizing
There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
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Allowed Children Mother Plenty
I don’t come from a privileged background.
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Allow Backgrounds Come Privileged
Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks
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Freak Freaks Revolutionary
Americans love to read about violence.
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Country Love Read Violence
I just feel that I don’t agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that’s sensationalized.
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Agree Feels Version
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
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Mass Moments Murderer Racist
It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around.
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Almost Always Around Opposition People Relative
I’m so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
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Electoral Politics Radio Sports Unhappy
I was shocked at the anger toward me.
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Anger Shocked Towards
The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable… those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
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Aspect Fundamental Fundamentals Patriotism Sanctions
I don’t feel that it was violent and terrible. I feel like it was primarily–obviously not completely–moral, based on a vision that the government should be better, and that people could be better, and that democracy should be real.
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Completely Government Morale People Terrible Violent
You can’t win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60’s person or you’ve sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60’s are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.
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Issues Million People Radical Try Winning
The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
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Government Real Terrorism World
I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
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Grand Illegal Jury
I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.
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Feminist Movement War Wish

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