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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.

Abbie Hoffman

Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Commitment Dope Drinking Hanging Smoking
If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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Awfully Drug Good Music Rock Sex
It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
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Combination Festival Park People Rolled Scope Trial
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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Depression Form Individual Nostalgia Society
When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF – which I do – but because I have long hair.
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Appear Hair Long Support Tried
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Conformist Democracy Dissident Freedom Giving Political
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Impose Language People Reach Wish
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Content Important Information Structure Transmission
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
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
I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
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Done Everyone Much Want Way
Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there’s peace. Well, I ain’t for that peace at all.
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Complicated Concept Gobbles Lamb Lips Peace Wipe
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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Challenging Giving Greater Success Winning
Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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College Education Race Truth Two Usually
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
Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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Crowded Fire Freedom Mean Right Speech Technology

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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