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Bernardine Dohrn

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
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 real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
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Government Real Terrorism World
I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
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Grand Illegal Jury
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
I was shocked at the anger toward me.
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Anger Shocked Towards
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
Americans love to read about violence.
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Country Love Read Violence
I don’t come from a privileged background.
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Allow Backgrounds Come Privileged
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
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’m so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
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Electoral Politics Radio Sports Unhappy
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
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 think that there is a lot going on with young people today.
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People Thinking Today Young

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