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.
ABBIE HOFFMANWouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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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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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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Wouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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