Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
ABBIE HOFFMANI 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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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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.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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