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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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Abbie Hoffman
Age: 52 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 30
Died: 1989
Died: April 12
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..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
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I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
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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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If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
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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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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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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 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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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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