Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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Abbie Hoffman
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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.
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Action is the only reality not only reality but morality as well.
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.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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.
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.