The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
ABBIE HOFFMANIt’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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 best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do ’em. And don’t bullshit. I mean that’s the thing about doin’ that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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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 only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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