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Bernardine Dohrn

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
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 was shocked at the anger toward me.
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Anger Shocked Towards
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
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Mass Moments Murderer Racist
I’m so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
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Electoral Politics Radio Sports Unhappy
The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
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Government Real Terrorism World
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 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
I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.
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People Thinking Today Young
Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks
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Freak Freaks Revolutionary
I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
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Grand Illegal Jury
The ’60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
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Commodity Kids Presented Today
Americans love to read about violence.
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Country Love Read Violence
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 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 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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