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Bernardine Dohrn

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 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
The ’60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
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Commodity Kids Presented Today
There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
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Allowed Children Mother Plenty
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
I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.
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People Thinking Today Young
Americans love to read about violence.
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Country Love Read Violence
I was shocked at the anger toward me.
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Anger Shocked Towards
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
I’m so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
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Electoral Politics Radio Sports Unhappy
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
I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
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Grand Illegal Jury
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
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
Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks
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Freak Freaks Revolutionary
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

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