Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Bernadine Dohrn

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Bernardine Rae Dohrn is a retired law professor and a former leader of the left-wing radical group Weather Underground in the United States. As a leader of the Weather Underground in the early 1970s, Dohrn was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list for several years. She remained a fugitive, even though she was removed from the list. After coming out of hiding in 1980, Dohrn pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of aggravated battery and bail jumping.

American - Educator | Born: January 12, 1942

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I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

Bernadine Dohrn

I was shocked at the anger toward me.

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I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.

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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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Americans love to read about violence.

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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 just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.

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There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.

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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 don't come from a privileged background.

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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.

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

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

Bernadine Dohrn

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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