A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
ABBIE HOFFMANRevolution 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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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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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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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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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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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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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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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