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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.

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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Collection Commitment Dope Drinking More Picture Postage Smoking Stamp
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
Wouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!
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Compliment Crime Fun Government Great High Honor Indicted Thrill
It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Gotten Late Powerful Win Winning
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Advice Cow Hamburger Sacred Tastiest
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
Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Detail Image Important Right
I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Cute Probably Rebellious Revolutionary
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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Change Hippie Ideology Liberty Process Revolution Something
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
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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Around Dirty Four Kid Saw Work
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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Authority Democracy Disrespect Kid
Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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College Education Race Truth Two Usually
..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
Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there’s peace. Well, I ain’t for that peace at all.
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Complicated Concept Gobbles Lamb Lips Peace Wipe
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Abuse Clinical Legal Medical Political Understand

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