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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.

Abbie Hoffman

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Decorum Dignity Men Out Repression Speaks
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Advice Cow Hamburger Sacred Tastiest
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Impose Language People Reach Wish
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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Molotov Cocktail Random Violence Rocks
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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Depression Form Individual Nostalgia Society
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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College Education Race Truth Two Usually
The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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College Destroy Reason Should
Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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Actor Available Less Life Need Rehearse Script
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Contemporary Expedience Justice Law Rule
It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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Best Embarrassing Government List Political Seller Wind
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Abuse Clinical Legal Medical Political Understand
The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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Dope Great never Rock Roll Sex
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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Breakfast Revolution Second
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Dope Drug Funny Needle Political Shooting
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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Combination Festival Park People Rolled Scope Trial
Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Collection Commitment Dope Drinking More Picture Postage Smoking Stamp

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