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Bernardine Dohrn

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
Americans love to read about violence.
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Country Love Read Violence
The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
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Government Real Terrorism World
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
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
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Mass Moments Murderer Racist
I don’t come from a privileged background.
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Allow Backgrounds Come Privileged
The ’60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
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Commodity Kids Presented Today
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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Always Balance Trying Understanding
I was shocked at the anger toward me.
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Anger Shocked Towards
I’m so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
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Electoral Politics Radio Sports Unhappy
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
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
There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
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Allowed Children Mother Plenty
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
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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Cop Human Survival Thing World

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