Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
ABBIE HOFFMANEvery 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 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 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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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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The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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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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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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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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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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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