I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
BERNARDINE DOHRNThe 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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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 real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
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I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
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Americans love to read about violence.
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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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I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.
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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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I was shocked at the anger toward me.
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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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I don’t come from a privileged background.
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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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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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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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