The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
ABBIE HOFFMAN
Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there’s peace. Well, I ain’t for that peace at all.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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 best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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