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.
ABBIE HOFFMANFree speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
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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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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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