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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.

Abbie Hoffman

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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Educate Idea Inform List Media Ridiculous
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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Compliment Crime Fun Government Great High Honor Indicted Thrill
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Content Important Information Structure Transmission
I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
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Authority Decision Face Fighting Thinking Versus
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Dope Drug Funny Needle Political Shooting
Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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Action Morality Reality Well
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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Combination Festival Park People Rolled Scope Trial
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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Challenging Giving Greater Success Winning
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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College Education Race Truth Two Usually
What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Call Question War
..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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Guerrilla Head Ideas Bullshit Mean Stoned
It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Gotten Late Powerful Win Winning
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Day First Inspirational Life Motivational Today
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Contemporary Expedience Justice Law Rule
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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Dope Kid Minor Real Sale State Year
Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Collection Commitment Dope Drinking More Picture Postage Smoking Stamp

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