Bernardine Dohrn famous quotes

03-28-2025

The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Real #Government #World
I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#War #Feminist #Wish
I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Sports #Unhappy #Radio
Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Values
The '60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Kids #Today #Commodity
There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Mother #Children #Should
You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Understanding #Balance #Trying
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.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Thinking #People #Way
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.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Winning #Issues #People
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.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Passion #Differences #Doctors
I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Thinking #Movement #Mystery
I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Thinking #People #Today
Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Freak #Revolutionary
I was shocked at the anger toward me.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Anger
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.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Patriotism #Fundamentals #Sanctions
Americans love to read about violence.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Violence #Love To Read
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Racist #Moments #Mass
I don't come from a privileged background.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Backgrounds
I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Illegal #Jury
I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Events #Movement #Bigs
I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Feels #Agree
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.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Survival #World #Cop

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