The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe 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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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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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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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