Dohrn Quotes & Sayings

Americans love to read about violence. — Bernadine Dohrn

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

Time for some thrillin' heroics. — Joss Whedon

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

It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do. — Lindsey Vonn

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

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

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

Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks — Bernardine Dohrn

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

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

No relationship is easy, and nobody should ever think it is. The minute you start forgetting the needs of the other person is when you get in trouble. — Goldie Hawn

If you're broke, you don't want to rap about being broke; you gonna rap about hustling and getting that bread. — Juicy J

I was shocked at the anger toward me. — Bernadine 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 think there's a mystery about what a social movement is. — Bernadine Dohrn

I think that there is a lot going on with young people today. — Bernadine 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

People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to. — Kate Moss

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

I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive. — Bernadine Dohrn

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

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

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

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

I don't come from a privileged background. — Bernadine Dohrn

The sharper your knife, the less you cry ... for me, it also means cutting those things that get in the way of your passion and living your life the way it is meant to be lived. — Kathleen Flinn

The '60s are presented to kids today as a commodity. — Bernadine Dohrn

There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children. — Bernadine Dohrn