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.
BERNARDINE DOHRNEven in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
More Bernardine Dohrn Quotes
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The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
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Killing a cop just because he’s a cop, that’ll happen. And that should happen. And there’s nothing inhuman about it at all. It’s survival. It’s the most human thing in the world.
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I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.
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I don’t come from a privileged background.
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I’m so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
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The ’60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
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Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
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I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.
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I was shocked at the anger toward me.
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Americans love to read about violence.
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There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
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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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I just feel that I don’t agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that’s sensationalized.
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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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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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