Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMANThe only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.
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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there’s peace. Well, I ain’t for that peace at all.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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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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