Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMANOnce you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF – which I do – but because I have long hair.
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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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 we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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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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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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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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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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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