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Bernardine Dohrn

The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
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Government Real Terrorism World
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
Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks
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Freak Freaks Revolutionary
The ’60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
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Commodity Kids Presented Today
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
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Mass Moments Murderer Racist
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
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’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 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 felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
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Grand Illegal Jury
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
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
There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
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Allowed Children Mother Plenty
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

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