Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
ABBIE HOFFMANAvoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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 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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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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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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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Democracy 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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