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Bernadine Dohrn [1942-0] American
Rank: 102
Educator, Law professor


Bernardine Rae Dohrn was a leader of the Weather Underground, a group that was responsible for the bombing of the United States Capitol, the Pentagon, and several police stations in New York, as well as the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion that killed three members of the Underground. 

Anger, Patriotism



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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. Patriotism
101
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
102
You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
103
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.
104
I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.
105
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.
106
Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool.
107
I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
108
The '60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.
109
I was shocked at the anger toward me. Anger
110
There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
111
Americans love to read about violence.
112
I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
113
I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.
114
I don't come from a privileged background.
115
I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.
116
I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.
117
I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
118

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