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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail.
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Free speech is the right to shout "Theater!" in a crowded fire.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Avoid all needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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If this guy is God, then this is the God that the United States of America deserves.
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All you kiddies remember to lay off the needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.
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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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You ask, "What about the innocent bystanders?" But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent.
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STRUCTURE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN CONTENT IN THE TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION. It is the same as saying "the medium is the message."
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THE KEY TO ORGANIZING AN ALTERNATIVE SOCIETY IS TO ORGANIZE PEOPLE AROUND WHAT THEY CAN DO AND MORE IMPORTANTLY WHAT THEY WANT TO DO.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
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Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
Abbie Hoffman
Born:
November 30, 1936
Died:
April 12, 1989
(aged 52)
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