Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Bernardine Dohrn

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Last updated on November 8, 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 - Professor | Born: January 12, 1942

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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.

Bernardine Dohrn

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

Bernardine Dohrn

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

I wish I could take back some of the things I said and some of the things I did. But in the bigger picture, I don't feel that it was violent and terrible. I feel like it was primarily--obviously not completely--moral, based on a vision that the government should be better, and that people could be better, and that democracy should be real.

Bernardine Dohrn

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

Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks

Bernardine Dohrn

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Bernardine Dohrn

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