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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

Abbie Hoffman

Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Political Produce Random Rock
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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Crazy Humor Maintain People Sense Winning
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Content Important Information Structure Transmission
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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Absolutely Challenging Learned Successful Thinking Winning
Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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Actor Available Less Life Need Rehearse Script
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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Alternative Anger Importantly Key Organize People Society
Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Collection Commitment Dope Drinking More Picture Postage Smoking Stamp
Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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Molotov Cocktail Random Violence Rocks
It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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Best Embarrassing Government List Political Seller Wind
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Decorum Dignity Men Out Repression Speaks
The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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Breakfast Revolution Second
The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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College Destroy Reason Should
Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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Action Morality Reality Well
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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Authority Democracy Disrespect Kid
I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things ’cause they’re fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
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Combine Fun Learned Thing Two World
I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
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Authority Decision Face Fighting Thinking Versus

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