Quotation by Bernardine 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
Bernardine Dohrn (b. 1942), U.S. lawyer and political activist. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A5 (July 14, 1993).

Reflecting on her political activism in the 1960s. A founder of Weatherman, a small radical group that splintered off from the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Dohrn went "underground" in 1969 to escape prosecution for her part in instigating the "Days of Rage," a series of riots in Chicago that caused extensive property damage. She had established a reputation for fiery revolutionary rhetoric and for advocating violence.
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