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I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.

Bernardine 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,
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Government People Real Things Wish
I don’t come from a privileged background.
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Allow Backgrounds Come Privileged
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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Completely Government Morale People Terrible Violent
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
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
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
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
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
The ’60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
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Commodity Kids Presented Today
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
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
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
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Mass Moments Murderer Racist
I was shocked at the anger toward me.
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Anger Shocked Towards
Americans love to read about violence.
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Country Love Read Violence
I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
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Big Events Movement Personalizing
I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
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Grand Illegal Jury

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