American - Educator | January 12, 1942 -
There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
Bernadine Dohrn
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Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
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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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I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.
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I don't come from a privileged background.
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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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I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
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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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I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.
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I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.
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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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I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.
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