Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
ABBIE HOFFMANIt’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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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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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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you’re selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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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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