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.
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 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.
I don't come from a privileged background.
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
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.
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.
I was shocked at the anger toward me.
Americans love to read about violence.
The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks
There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
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.
I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
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.
I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.
