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Action is the only reality not only reality, but morality as well.

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Abbie Hoffman
Age: 52 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 30
Died: 1989
Died: April 12
Human Rights Activist
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Political Writer
Politician
Psychologist
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Worcester
Massachusetts
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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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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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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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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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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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