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You’re always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

Bernardine Dohrn

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I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
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Grand Illegal
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 Personalizing
I’m so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
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Electoral Radio
I don’t come from a privileged background.
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Backgrounds Privileged
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
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Mass Murderer Racist
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 Radical Winning
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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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 Thing
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Anything Unreasonable Well
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 Morale Violent
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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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 Around
The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.

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The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
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Real Terrorism
Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks
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Freak Freaks Revolutionary
I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.
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Feminist Wish
There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
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Allowed Plenty
I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.

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