“Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.”

— Ulrike Meinhof

Published in “Vom Protest zum Widerstand” [“From Protest to Resistance” http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/docpage.cfm?docpage_id=1628&language=english], konkret http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkret, no. 5 (May 1968), p. 5.

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German left-wing militant 1934–1976

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