A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe 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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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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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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 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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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 only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do ’em. And don’t bullshit. I mean that’s the thing about doin’ that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
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