The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
ABBIE HOFFMANFree speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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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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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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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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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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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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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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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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