I was shocked at the anger toward me.
BERNARDINE DOHRNFreaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks
More Bernardine Dohrn Quotes
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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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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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The ’60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
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I’m so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
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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.
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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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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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I don’t come from a privileged background.
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I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.
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Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
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I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
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The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
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There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
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I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
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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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