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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.

Bernardine Dohrn

The ’60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
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Commodity Kids Presented Today
I’m so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
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Electoral Politics Radio Sports Unhappy
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
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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Government People Real Things Wish
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 think that there is a lot going on with young people today.
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People Thinking Today Young
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
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
There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
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Allowed Children Mother Plenty
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
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
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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Issues Million People Radical Try Winning
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
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Mass Moments Murderer Racist
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.
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Better Errors Glorification Gun Military Picking

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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