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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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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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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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To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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 too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
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