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.
BERNARDINE DOHRNThe ’60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
More Bernardine Dohrn Quotes
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Americans love to read about violence.
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The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
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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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Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
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I don’t come from a privileged background.
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The ’60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
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You’re always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
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I was shocked at the anger toward me.
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I’m so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
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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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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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There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
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I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
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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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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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