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Bernardine Dohrn21 quotes“Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks”
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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.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn You’re always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn I don’t come from a privileged background.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn 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.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn I wish I could take back some of the things I said and some of the things I did. But in the bigger picture,
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn 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.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn The ’60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn 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.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.
Bernardine DohrnBernardine Dohrn I’m so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
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I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.
William GoldingWilliam Golding If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
Stephen FryStephen Fry I’m an OCD neat freak. I can’t stand messes. I make my bed every morning. Laundry. I do it all.
John DalyJohn Daly I’ve been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mellow and then the day of the wedding freaking out.
Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.
Al MichaelsAl Michaels The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
Al SharptonAl Sharpton I had to do another couple of albums about this idiot. Then I had to play in front of 37 people. It was horrible. I was crying. I was freaked out.
Al JourgensenAl Jourgensen People who have freaked out as Trump points the blame on Mexicans when you have what you have in Europe.
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