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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

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