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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.

Abbie Hoffman

Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Commitment Dope Drinking Hanging Smoking
Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
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Crazy Humor Maintain People Sense Winning
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Conformist Democracy Dissident Freedom Giving Political
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
..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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Guerrilla Head Ideas Bullshit Mean Stoned
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
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Day First Inspirational Life Motivational Today
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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Changing Concentrate Group Hippie Modern Political
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Breakfast Duty Eat Hippie Liberty Political Second
The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Educate Idea Inform List Media Ridiculous
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Depression Form Individual Nostalgia Society
Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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Actor Available Less Life Need Rehearse Script
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
It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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Best Embarrassing Government List Political Seller Wind
It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Gotten Late Powerful Win Winning
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Impose Language People Reach Wish

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