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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

Abbie Hoffman

It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Gotten Late Powerful Win Winning
The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.
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Around Dirty Four Kid Saw Work
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Contemporary Expedience Justice Law Rule
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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Corporate Internationalist Life Machine Respect Robot War
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
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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Believe Democracy Freedom Hang Motivational Participate
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
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
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
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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Breakfast Duty Eat Hippie Liberty Political Second
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
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
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
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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Brother Evil Immoral Institution Law Pig Pillar Sister Steal
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
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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Accepting Challenge Community Essence Individual Nation Revolution Successful

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