The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
ABBIE HOFFMANOnce you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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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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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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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