Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
ABBIE HOFFMANAction is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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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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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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