The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
ABBIE HOFFMANHep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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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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 was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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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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