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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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Abbie Hoffman
Age: 52 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 30
Died: 1989
Died: April 12
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Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. 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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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.
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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. 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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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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Action is the only reality not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as cute.
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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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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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