This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better,we’ve called the military error.
BERNARDINE DOHRNI 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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The ’60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
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I don’t come from a privileged background.
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I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
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Americans love to read about violence.
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I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.
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Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks
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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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I just feel that I don’t agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that’s sensationalized.
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There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
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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 was shocked at the anger toward me.
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Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
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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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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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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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