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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

Abbie Hoffman

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Abuse Clinical Legal Medical Political Understand
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Contemporary Expedience Justice Law Rule
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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Absolutely Challenging Learned Successful Thinking Winning
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
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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Change Hippie Ideology Liberty Process Revolution Something
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
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
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Impose Language People Reach Wish
Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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Action Morality Reality Well
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
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
I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things ’cause they’re fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
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Combine Fun Learned Thing Two World
What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Call Question War
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
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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Feeling Fighting General Power Thinking Win Winning
Wouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!
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Compliment Crime Fun Government Great High Honor Indicted Thrill

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