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 DOHRNYou 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.
More Bernardine Dohrn Quotes
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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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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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Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
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I was shocked at the anger toward me.
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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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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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The ’60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
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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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I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
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Americans love to read about violence.
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Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks
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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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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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There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
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