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.
ABBIE HOFFMANI think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
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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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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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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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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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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