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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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Government People Real Things Wish
The ’60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
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Commodity Kids Presented Today
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 felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
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Grand Illegal Jury
I’m so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
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Electoral Politics Radio Sports Unhappy
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
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 think that there is a lot going on with young people today.
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People Thinking Today Young
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
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 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
The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
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Government Real Terrorism World
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
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Mass Moments Murderer Racist
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 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
I don’t come from a privileged background.
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Allow Backgrounds Come Privileged

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