The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
ABBIE HOFFMANDemocracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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 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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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