Dohrn Quotes

#1. I don't come from a privileged background.

Bernadine Dohrn

#2. You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

Bernadine Dohrn

#3. I was shocked at the anger toward me.

Bernadine Dohrn

#4. Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks

Bernardine Dohrn

#5. Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.

Bernadine Dohrn

#6. Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool.

Bernadine Dohrn

#7. 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

#8. I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.

Bernadine Dohrn

#9. Americans love to read about violence.

Bernadine Dohrn

#10. 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.

Bernadine Dohrn

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

Bernadine Dohrn

#12. I don't know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman.

Alice Walker

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

Bernadine Dohrn

#14. Action is my first love. When I first started writing, my favorite movies were 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and 'Aliens', and that sort of thing.

David Leslie Johnson

#15. I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.

Bernadine Dohrn

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

Bernadine Dohrn

#17. Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.

John Green

#18. Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.

Tatum O'Neal

#19. 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.

Bernadine Dohrn

#20. Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo.

Paul Krassner

#21. The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.

Albert Einstein

#22. Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).

Robert Nozick

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

Bernadine Dohrn

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

Bernardine Dohrn

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

Bernadine Dohrn

#26. 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.

Bernadine Dohrn

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

Bernadine Dohrn

#28. I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

Bernadine Dohrn

#29. 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