Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMANRandom political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Wouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!
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The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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