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The '60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.

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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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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