Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
ABBIE HOFFMANBecome 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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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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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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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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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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