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Bernardine Dohrn

Bernardine Rae Dohrn (née Ohrnstein; born January 12, 1942) is a former leader of the Weather Underground, a militant radical group responsible for bombings of the United States Capitol, the Pentagon, and several police stations in New York, as well as the accidental Greenwich Village townhouse explosion that killed three members of the Underground. As a member of the Weather Underground, Dohrn helped to create a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States government, and was placed on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, where she remained for three years. From 1991 to 2013 she was a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University School of Law. She is married to Bill Ayers, a co-founder of the Weather Underground, who was formerly a tenured professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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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.

Differences, Doctors, Media, Passion, Public, Today

I was shocked at the anger toward me.

Anger, Shocked, Toward

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.

Felt, Groups, Know, People, Thinking, Young

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

Always Trying, Balance, Freedom, Longing, Understanding

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.

Errors, Gun, Heavier, Military, Picking, Tendency

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.

Fulfill, Issues, Losing, People, Radical, Winning

I don't come from a privileged background.

Background, Backgrounds, Come, Privileged

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

Commodity, Kids, Today

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

Agree, Feels, Sensationalized, Version, Versions

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.

Survival, World, Cop, Happen, Inhuman

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

Real, Government, World, Terrorist, Terrorism

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

Racist, Moments, Mass, Supported, Murderer

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

Values, Cesspool

Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks

Freak, Freaks, Revolutionaries, Revolutionary

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.

Real, Government, People, Back, Bigger

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

Feminist, Movement, War, Wish