I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
BERNARDINE DOHRNI think that there is a lot going on with young people today.
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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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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Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks
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I was shocked at the anger toward me.
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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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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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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 don’t come from a privileged background.
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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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I’m so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
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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 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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Americans love to read about violence.
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The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
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