The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
ABBIE HOFFMANMaintain 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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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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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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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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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 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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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