The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
ABBIE HOFFMANUsually 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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I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
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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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The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things ’cause they’re fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF – which I do – but because I have long hair.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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