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ABBIE HOFFMANA revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do ’em. And don’t bullshit. I mean that’s the thing about doin’ that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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