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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.

Abbie Hoffman

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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Action Morality Reality Well
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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Dope Kid Minor Real Sale State Year
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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Consciousness Cover Distribution Empty Grass Grave Greening Power Revolution
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
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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Believe Compulsory Military Peace War
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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Done Everyone Much Want Way
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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Changing Concentrate Group Hippie Modern Political
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
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
What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Call Question War
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
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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Accepting Challenge Community Essence Individual Nation Revolution Successful
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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Authority Decision Face Fighting Thinking Versus
The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Best Educate Oneself Revolution Way
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
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Contemporary Expedience Justice Law Rule

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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