I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
BERNARDINE DOHRNThis 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.
More Bernardine Dohrn Quotes
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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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There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
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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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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 wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.
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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 felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
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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 wish I could take back some of the things I said and some of the things I did. But in the bigger picture,
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Americans love to read about violence.
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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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The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
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I’m so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
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Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks
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