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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.

Bernardine 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.
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Better Errors Glorification Gun Military Picking
I don’t come from a privileged background.
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Allow Backgrounds Come Privileged
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 People Radical Try Winning
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
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Mass Moments Murderer Racist
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
The ’60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
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Commodity Kids Presented Today
I was shocked at the anger toward me.
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Anger Shocked Towards
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
The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
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Government Real Terrorism World
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 felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
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Grand Illegal Jury
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
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
There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
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Allowed Children Mother Plenty
Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks
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Freak Freaks Revolutionary
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

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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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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