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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.

Abbie Hoffman

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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Action Morality Reality Well
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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Changing Concentrate Group Hippie Modern Political
A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
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Consciousness Cover Distribution Empty Grass Grave Greening Power Revolution
I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Cute Probably Rebellious Revolutionary
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
Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Political Produce Random Rock
The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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Dope Great never Rock Roll Sex
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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Corporate Internationalist Life Machine Respect Robot War
It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Gotten Late Powerful Win Winning
..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
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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Absolutely Challenging Learned Successful Thinking Winning
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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Breakfast Revolution Second
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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Commitment Dope Drinking Hanging Smoking
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Inspirational Life Revolution Support Truth Way
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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Alternative Anger Importantly Key Organize People Society

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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