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I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.

Bernardine Dohrn

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Bernardine Dohrn
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 12
Law Professor
University Teacher
Milwaukee City
Wisconsin
Bernardine Ohrnstein
Bernardine Rae Dohrn
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Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.
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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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Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks
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I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
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I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. 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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Americans love to read about violence.
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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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I was shocked at the anger toward me.
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I don't come from a privileged background.
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The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
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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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Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
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I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.
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There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
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I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
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The '60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
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