Bernardine Dohrn on grand
Bernardine Dohrn21 quotes“I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.”
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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.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn You’re always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn I don’t come from a privileged background.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine 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.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn I wish I could take back some of the things I said and some of the things I did. But in the bigger picture,
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn 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 DohrnBernardine Dohrn The ’60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn 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.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn I’m so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design.
Alan BrennertAlan Brennert I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
Al SharptonAl Sharpton Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question ‘What should I do with my life?’ In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence,
Akhil SharmaAkhil Sharma It’s always difficult, especially the U.S. Open, the last of the Grand Slams. It’s always tough because you know, the season is very long.
Agnieszka RadwanskaAgnieszka Radwanska We can already foresee a moment when it will bring about (“entraînera”, Fr.) severe (big, high, intense, – “grands”, Fr.) disasters,
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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