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ABBIE HOFFMANI 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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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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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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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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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 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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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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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