18 Quotes by Bernadine Dohrn

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.

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

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

I don't come from a privileged background.

I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.

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.

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

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

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