When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
ABBIE HOFFMANRandom political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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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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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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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..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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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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
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