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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.

Abbie Hoffman

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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Change Hippie Ideology Liberty Process Revolution Something
My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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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 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 measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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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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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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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