Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMANWhat if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
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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 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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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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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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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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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It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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 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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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