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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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A 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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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