Bernadine Dohrn quotes:

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.

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

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

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.

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

Americans love to read about violence.

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

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

I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.

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