The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
ABBIE HOFFMANSmoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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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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A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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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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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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