I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
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More Bernardine Dohrn Quotes
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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 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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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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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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Americans love to read about violence.
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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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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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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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I just feel that I don’t agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that’s sensationalized.
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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 think that there is a lot going on with young people today.
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