The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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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 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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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